This is added to separate them from such thoughts as are injected and cast in from the outside, which are children of another. Such are blasphemous thoughts, which are cast in by Satan, in which the soul may be merely passive (as the word “buffet” implies in 2 Corinthians 12:7); they are not of your thoughts, but they are his. It is as when one in [a different] room hears another swear and curse, but cannot get away from him—such thoughts, if they are only from without, do not defile a man. For nothing defiles a man but what comes from within (Mat 15), that is, that which the heart has
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