Motif
Moral corruption as bitter contamination of sweetness
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A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Sweetness Contaminated into Moral Corruption. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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christian apocrypha
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The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete COMMAND II. / COMMAND III. / COMMAND IV. / COMMAND V.; lines 21243-21393 confidence: high
A little wormwood placed into a vessel of honey spoils the whole honey; without wormwood the honey is sweet and profitable. Forbearance is sweeter than honey, but anger mixed with forbearance distresses the soul and makes prayer unprofitable with God.
A little wormwood corrupting a whole vessel of honey is used to explain how anger mixed with forbearance distresses the soul and ruins prayer.
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