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 1 2 |         he alludes to the impious custom by which men were deprived
 2 2 |           accordance with ancient custom; and the Thebans to weasels,
 3 4 |       find how truly silly is the custom in which you have been reared,
 4 10|       truly our Father, rejecting custom as a deleterious drug? For
 5 10|          insane and most wretched custom is to godliness. For a boon
 6 10|          you been carried away by custom, and then shut your ears
 7 10|         God, and not according to custom? For God bestows life freely;
 8 10|     bestows life freely; but evil custom, after our departure from
 9 10|        than full of insanity. And custom, which has made you taste
10 10|            purify yourselves from custom, by sprinkling yourselves
11 10|       enslaved as you are to evil custom, and, clinging to it voluntarily
12 10| phantasies, and bid adieu to evil custom, say to vain opinion:--~"
13 10|         life through the force of custom. "The earth is the LORD'
14 10|      people of weak stomach, thus custom pleases and, tickles; but
15 10|         pleases and, tickles; but custom pushes into the abyss, while
16 10|     surmount the frivolousness of custom, as boys when they have
17 12|        CHRIST.~ Let us then avoid custom as we would a dangerous
18 12|         leads him away from life: custom is a snare, a gulf, a pit,