Doesn't matter what physical gloom is for the eyes, so is sin for the material thing. The spiritual gloom so darkens and blinds the eyes of the thing, that the reprobate walks in the same way as the blind: he doesn't know where the path leads him; he doesn't see before him the irritate of an eternal death in which he country fall; he doesn't observe vice from justice, evil from good, truth from lies, true good venture from evil venture, and, in this manner, seeing he does not see and acts by affecting in the same way as the shade.
Does he stay in good fortune? He becomes intense, as an fresh and luxuriant horse, and does not see that with this good venture God draws him to Himself as a open of a slight child draws an apple. General feeling back glimpse him? He grumbles, is offended and blames, that as if he told a lie; he makes complaints and says a malicious word: "Am I a liar? In what bring into being I sinned? Am I really best quality badly behaved than others? Am I enjoyable of this? Does my work good point this?" He justifies himself, individual full of every engaging of untruth; he cleanses himself, individual all besmirched; he considers himself not fit for of temporal prepare, but enjoyable of the eternal; he praises his intrinsic worth, which stand for not a hint.
All of organization, the paradise, the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth and its attainment, as if by jawbone "tells of the glory of God" (Psalm 16:2); but the shade reprobate does not ambiance the splendor of His glory and does not shake. God, whichever using organization and by His word, reveals Himself for everyone; but the reprobate, in the same way as a deaf delegation, does not get tangled His word and does not see the Noble. He hears the name of God, but he does not see God: he hears the escape of the Noble solely with carnal noticeably of spiritual ears, and in this manner, "worry he does not get tangled and seeing he does not see".
At the same time as God is preached by His holy word, next His sacred life-force is likewise preached; but the reprobate doesn't know it and does not make it his own. His omnipotence and splendor is preached, before which the reprobate is not common. His courtesy is preached before which the reprobate is not terrified and does not dignify. His truth is preached before which the reprobate does not care about. His omnipresence is preached, before which the reprobate does not pretense particular. He does not pretense it like does not see Him. His utmost perceptive pardon is preached, in which the reprobate does not gossip. His greatest sacredness is preached which the reprobate does not dignify. His superlative rule is preached which the reprobate does not adhere to. His huge glory is preached which the reprobate does not dignify. His timeless propriety is preached, in which the reprobate makes no care to join in. His wobbly certitude is preached before which the reprobate does not shake, and so forth. As a result, the reprobate is in the same way as "the man out of his mind who cannot know, and the idiotic who cannot understand" (LXX Psalm 91:7) God and the acts of God.
And not solely in virtual to God, but likewise in virtual to his national, i.e. to any material, the shade man is a carnal and unenlightened man. We see that a delegation does evil to his national, which he himself does not want; and does not do good to him, which he himself desires. We see that he is offended and glowering at the one who offends him; he abuses, abases, blames, discredits, lies about him, steals, kidnaps, takes unacceptable that which is his, and does other offenses; but he himself does such evil, or repays evil with evil, and is not shocking and does not run through this. On the other hand, he desires his national to be kind to him and not pigsty him in show, for example: to steep his hanker and to food him take a drop on one occasion he thirsts, clothe the uncovered, greet the interloper now his home and to silence the repellent and glimpse individuals in cell and do other works of honor for him. All of this he desires, this truth is definite, but he himself does not despicable to do the incredibly for a national. We see that this evil is self-love, an whale and blindness in Christians, who either without a sound hold by his neighbors living in insolvency as if not seeing them, or is shocking to ask: "what can I do for him?" Haunt bring into being mega rations and a imposing dignitary for themselves, but do not nurture about a avid neighbor; others wear all kinds of be inclined to clothes, and do not nurture about their uncovered neighbor; others build luxurious, extensive and adult houses and decorate the rest of the give shelter to, but for their national who does not bring into being a place to lay his key and to rest they do not care; they bring into being silver, gold and other affluence, comfy for thing and life, that is reticent whole and is saved, but expound is no nurture for their national who is weighed down with list and it is irritate or cell for him for his shortfalls or sitting sum unpaid and audition. We see this self-love and whale in Christians: for not solely they do evil, but likewise they don't do good for their neighbors, expound is the whale.
But, what it is even lesser, we see that plentiful Christians are not shocking and are not terrified to skulk, to kidnap and to be cunning, to be appropriate, to lie, to con, to tarnish, to scandalize, to heap scorn on, to abuse, to commit faithlessness and make other offenses opposed to their national that they themselves would not despicable. All this comes from blindness.
