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be unto the man of iniquity who bringeth wrath." 1 And again he said, " Let them remove the sinner so that he may not see the glory of God." 2 Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " The sinner speaketh what will condemn him, and there is no fear of God before his eyes." 3 Thus Solomon his son prophesied and said, " The man of iniquity bringeth tumult to the city and he maketh to come and destruction, willingly beating, and which cannot be for he healed, calamity rejoiceth in 4 hateth." which God everything Thus prophesied Moses the Prophet and said, " God ; wisheth not to forgive him but rather to increase ven- and He will make punishments to geance upon him rest upon him, and the curse which is written in this book shall come upon him and his name shall be blotted out from under heaven." 5 Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " His heart is ready for slaughter ; he preferreth cursing and it shall come to him he refuseth blessing and it 6 shall be far from him." Thus Jeremiah the Prophet prophesied concerning him and said, " The man of iniquity shall be destroyed because of the love of money, and he looketh upon 7 darkness because of his fraud." Thus Job prophesied and said concerning him, " His Creator will destroy his fair work, and his root shall dry up under him, and his flower shall be beaten down upon him, and his memorial shall be blotted out from the earth, and his name shall be cast far away, and men shall remove him into the darkness so that he may not see the light, and the house of the man of iniquity shall be blotted out." 8 ; ; ; 1 Isaiah x, I, 2. 5 Deuteronomy xxix, 20. Psalm civ, 35. 3 Psalm xxxvi, I. 8 Psalm cix, 17. 7 Compare Ezekiel xviii, 12, 31 * 8 Job xviii, 16 f. 2 Prov. xi, 212 n.