_Typical._--Nothing is so like charity as covetousness, and nothing is… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Typical._--Nothing is so like charity as covetousness, and nothing is so opposed to it. Thus the Jews, full of possessions which flattered their covetousness, were very like Christians, and very contrary. And by this means they had the two qualities which it was necessary they should have, to be very like the Messiah to typify Him, and very contrary not to be suspected witnesses.

Place: SECTION X · ¶2005
License: Public domain · Source
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