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4. That
God does not easily pardon idolaters.
Moses in Exodus prays for the people, and does not
obtain his prayer, saying: “I pray, O Lord, this people
hath sinned a great sin. They have made them gods of gold.
And now, if Thou forgivest them their sin, forgive it; but if not, blot
me out of the book which Thou hast written. And the Lord said
unto Moses, If any one hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of
my book.”3721
Moreover, when Jeremiah besought for the people, the Lord speaks to
him, saying: “And pray not thou for this people, and
entreat not for them in prayer and supplication; because I will not
hear in the time wherein they shall call upon me in the time of their
affliction.”3722
Ezekiel also denounces this same
anger of God upon those who sin against God, and says: “And
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, whatsoever land
sinneth against me, by committing an offence, I will stretch forth mine
hand upon it, and will crush the support of the bread thereof; and I
will send into it famine, and I will take away from it man and
beast. And though these three men were in the midst of it, Noah,
Daniel, and Job, they shall not deliver sons nor daughters; they
themselves only shall be delivered.”3723
Likewise in the first book of
Kings: “If a man sin by offending against another, they
shall beseech the Lord for him; but if a man sin against God, who shall
entreat for him?”3724
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