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Forcing every passage of Scripture to agree bends the clear passages to the obscure and corrupt
Drawn from what Baruch Spinoza said
What Baruch Spinoza actually said
- Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677)
They think it pious to reconcile one passage of Scripture with another - a pretty piety, forsooth, which accommodates the clear passages to the obscure, the correct to the faulty, the sound to the corrupt.
Where this was said
↗Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 2 (1670; R. H. M. Elwes translation)gutenberg.org
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