3я Царств 2:5

Verse 5. It is, moreover, now perceived that the unregenerate natural man, by reason of the falsification of truth which ought to have been a lamp therein, and the complete perversion of good, which should have been permanent, was incapable, on account of such falsification, of any conjunction with the higher life, so that even the dictate of the senses was no longer to be depended upon;