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EXCOMMUNICATION AND ILLNESS
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Pure and hard as a crystal, he wrote to all those people at strife and enmity among themselves, gently reproaching them, and pointing out the only way of salvation—submission to the will of the Father of Life, and an existence based on reason and love.