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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
The sacred is brought down and so interwoven with lust and impure,
unholy practices that the victim is confused, and the soul temple
becomes a sink of iniquity. At first the unsuspecting only listen; they
receive the liberties of preference shown them; then the education goes
on until “as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction
of the stocks” (
Proverbs 7:22
), they follow in the steps of the tempter
and go fully as far as he would lead them.—
Letter 82, 1886
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