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Consistent with what has been said before, the experience according to sense in the symbols of the law; hungering in soul for the spirit, and being short-sighted of the inquiry that is like a guide to the knowledge according to truth.

69. A digression is that in which there is often, as it happens, also error. 70. Of blessedness, it is clear that, those deemed worthy of it by participation

characterizing, and from itself making them known.

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ὁμολογούμενον τοῖς προειρημένοις, τήν κατ᾿ αἴσθησιν ἐν τοῖς συμβόλοις τοῦ νόμου πεῖραν· κατά ψυχήν λιμώττων τοῦ πνεύματος, καί τήν ὥσπερ ὁδηγίαν ἐρώτησιν τῆς κατά ἀλήθειαν γνώσεως μυωπάζων.

69. Μεταξυλογία ἐστί, τό ἐν ᾗ τυχόν ἐστι πολλάκις καί πλάνησις. 70. Μακαριότητος δῆλον ὅτι, τούς κατά μέθεξιν αὐτῆς ἀξιωθέντας

χαρακτηριζούσης, καί ἐξ αὐτῆς γνωρίμους αὐτούς καθιστῶσα.