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If man comes near to God in proportion as he grows more like him, then unlikeness to God is the only separation from him, and the soul of man is estranged from that immortal, eternal, and unchangeable being in proportion as it craves for things that are temporal and changeable.

The Jews put Christ to death, when the New Testament revealed what was veiled in the Old Testament, the knowledge that God, the one true God, is to be worshipped for the sake of eternal life and everlasting gifts and for participation in that City on high, and not for earthly and temporal blessings, which divine providence bestows on good and evil without discrimination.