Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1500

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1500. What the punishment of horror of darkness accomplishes

When they have been thus let into the dark hole [1492 1/2-93], and afterwards come into the daylight, then as soon as they want revenge, that horror occurs to them, and so they desist. It is horror, therefore, that answers to those [evils of revenge], while fright and fear respond to other evils. They are frightened away by them. 1748, 18 March.


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