and seek treatment for their wounds, light and superficial as they are, knowing that it is written: God is not mocked.143 God cannot be mocked or outwitted, no clever cunning can deceive Him. Indeed, a man sins all the more grievously if he judges of God by human standards and thinks he will escape the penalty of his sin because he committed no overt act. Christ in His teaching says: ‘He that shall be ashamed of me … him shall the Son of man put to shame’;143a and can a man account himself a Christian