And thus have I reflected upon the wearinesses of my sins , in that threefold lust , and have invoked Your right hand to my aid. For with a wounded heart have I seen Your brightness, and being beaten back I exclaimed, Who can attain unto it? I am cut off from before Your eyes. You are the Truth, who presidest over all things, but I, through my covetousness , wished not to lose You, but with You wished to possess a lie ; as no one wishes so to speak falsely as himself to be ignorant of the truth . So then I lost You, because Thou deignest not to be enjoyed with a lie .
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