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This revised edition of The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross was produced to mark the fourth centenary of the death of St. John of the Cross (1542–1591). The result is an English translation of his writings that preserves the authentic meaning of the great mystic’s writings, presents them as clearly as possible, and at the same time gives the reader the doctrinal and historical...

forbidden that the altar have any strange fire, or that its own go out; so much so that when Nadab and Abihu, the sons of the high priest Aaron, offered strange fire on our Lord’s altar God became angry and slew them there in front of the altar [Lv. 10:1–2]. The lesson we derive here is that one’s love for God must never fail or be mixed with alien loves if one wants to be a worthy altar of sacrifice. 8. God allows nothing else to dwell together with him. We read, consequently, in the First Book
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