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"text": "Lot is a believer who is a monetary reversionist. He abandoned the directive will of God for \"sordid gain\" (cf. 1Tim. 3:8; Titus 1:7, 11; 1Pet. 5:2; Gk. aischrokerdes).",
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"ref": "1822, The Quarterly review - Volume 26, page 268",
"text": "If the particular species of clamour, to which we allude, has in some degree subsided, we doubt whether the cessateion of hostilities is so much to be ascribed to a full sense of its absurdity and wickedness, as to a growing consciousness that the lewd libidinous stare, directed against the jewels of the crown, would in time be transferred to wealth of a more substantial kind, and that the fund-holder and land-owner would come in for a share of that clamour which had hitherto been confined to the pensionist and the reversionist.",
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"text": "Lot is a believer who is a monetary reversionist. He abandoned the directive will of God for \"sordid gain\" (cf. 1Tim. 3:8; Titus 1:7, 11; 1Pet. 5:2; Gk. aischrokerdes).",
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"text": "If the particular species of clamour, to which we allude, has in some degree subsided, we doubt whether the cessateion of hostilities is so much to be ascribed to a full sense of its absurdity and wickedness, as to a growing consciousness that the lewd libidinous stare, directed against the jewels of the crown, would in time be transferred to wealth of a more substantial kind, and that the fund-holder and land-owner would come in for a share of that clamour which had hitherto been confined to the pensionist and the reversionist.",
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