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Wickedness is his Isaac (that is the word here); it is his delight, his darling, and that in which he pleases himself.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Wickedness is not only a reproach to the sinner himself, but to all that are akin to him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Use of the Young, "for example:" Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. "
Gyles Brandreth Answers Questions about the Oscar Wilde Mysteries 2010
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Adversaries; and having demonstrated to his Audience, that those whom they are to fight against, or else the great Grandfathers of them, have been notoriously guilty of that Wickedness, which is so heinous in the Sight of Heaven, he may easily convince Believers, that their
An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701
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"Wickedness," on the other hand, is reserved for people who do terrible things "knowing they are doing wrong."
Gabriel Rotello: Will Smith, Hitler and the Holocaust's Unanswerable Question 2008
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The Argentinian magazine Axxon is going to be translating my interview with Nancy Jane Moore, "The Revelation of Gender" along with two of my stories, "Wickedness" and "Magnificent Pigs" and her story "Three O'Clock in the Morning".
Cat Rambo catrambo 2007
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"Wickedness" (translated by the Septuagint by the same Greek, meaning "lawlessness," which Paul employs here), embodied there as a woman, answers to "the mystery of iniquity," here embodied finally in
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"Wickedness" being cast out of Judah, shall for ever dwell with the antichristian apostates (of whom Babylon is the type), who shall reap the fruit of it, which they deserve.
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"Wickedness" stands for those numerous evil tricks, those nimble, subtle, venomous artifices practiced upon Christian doctrine and the
Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Martin Luther 1514
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