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To fall from grace; to change from a state of virtuousness to sinfulness or wrongdoing..
The good, all those spirits to whom God has equalled you by his gift, and who were watching to welcome every noble sentiment in you, shall mourn over your fall. Jesus pities his unfaithful follower who has done so much to unredeem, to uncreate himself — descended so far towards the second death.
Since unforgivable acts lie in one's positive use of freedom to undo creation—to uncreate—and to make flawed what has been deemed worthy of existence—to unredeem—then the unforgiving act is addressed to oneself and to the cosmos.
That is, until some old comrade who has remained a proletarian squares things up with a musket-shot; (Augie Pisano?) or until, by the necessity of events or by the overwhelming revival of his instincts (for the leopard cannot change his spots) he sees an opportunity to unredeem himself temporarily, only to redeem himself again when the (crooked) business is over.
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Unredeem means To fall from grace; to change from a state of virtuousness to sinfulness or wrongdoing..
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The good, all those spirits to whom God has equalled you by his gift, and who were watching to welcome every noble sentiment in you, shall mourn over your fall. Jesus pities his unfaithful follower who has done so much to unredeem, to uncreate himself — descended so far towards the second death.
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