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Genesis 4:9

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9 Tada Viešpats paklausė Kaino: “Kur yra tavo brolis Abelis?” O jis atsakė: “Nežinau. Argi aš esu savo brolio sargas?”

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Arcana Coelestia #364

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364. Secondly, it is said, “If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door” which signifies, If thou art not well disposed, there is no charity present, but evil. Everybody can see that “sin lying at the door” is evil ready and desirous to enter; for when there is no charity there are unmercifulness and hatred, consequently all evil. Sin in general is called the “devil” who, that is, his crew of infernals, is ever at hand when man is destitute of charity; and the only means of driving away the devil and his crew from the door of the mind, is love to the Lord and toward the neighbor.

  
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