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O singular wisdom, O judges! Do they not seem to have cut this man off and separated
him from nature; from whom they took away at once the heaven, the sun, water and earth,
so that he who had slain him, from whom he himself was horn, might be deprived of all
those things from which everything is said to derive its birth. They would not throw his
body to wild beasts, lest we should find the very beasts who had touched such
wickedness, more savage; they would not throw them naked into the river, lest when they
were carried down into the sea, they should pollute that also, by which all other things
which have been polluted are believed to be purified. There is nothing in short so vile
or so common that they left them any share in it.
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