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Satan's Anaesthetic: The Numbness of Moral Decline - Illustration on moral blindness | IllustrateTheWord

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Satan's Anaesthetic: The Numbness of Moral Decline

By Joseph S. ExellSource: archive.org217 wordsAI-crafted by ChurchWiseAI

They have beaten me and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Proverbs 20:35) Joseph S. Exell's 1887 illustration draws a striking parallel between surgical anaesthesia and moral corruption. Just as modern medicine...

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moral blindness the deceptive nature of sin conscience as divine warning

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Proverbs 20:35

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