take heed? If Isaiah had unclean lips—who said: “Woe is me, for I am undone, for I am a man, and have unclean lips”1—if a prophet of the Lord had unclean lips, how shall we have them clean? 11. But for whom was it written, unless it was for each one of us: “Hedge thy possession about with thorns, and bind up thy silver and gold, and make a door and a bar for thy mouth, and a yoke and a balance for thy words”?2 Thy possession is thy mind, thy gold thy heart, thy silver thy speech: “The words of
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