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   "What is the aim of the incarnate dispensation of God's Word, preached in   
   all the Holy Scriptures but which we, who read them, do not know? The only   
   aim is that, having entered into what is our own, we should participate in   
   what is His. The Son of God has become Son of Man in order to make us, men,   
   sons of God, raising our race by grace to what He is Himself by nature,   
   granting us birth from above through the grace of the Holy Spirit and   
   leading us straightway to the kingdom of heaven, or rather, granting us   
   this kingdom of heaven within us (Luke 17:21), in order that we should not   
   merely be fed by the hope of entering it, but entering into full possession   
   thereof should cry: our 'life is hid with Christ in God' (Col. 3:3)."   
      
   St. Simeon the New Theologian, Practical and Theological Precepts.   
      
   "Let all that you do be done with love."  1 Corinthians 16:14   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)