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Testament of Judah 18
Judah warns his children that fornication and love of money are not merely moral failures but active mechanisms that blind the understanding, harden the soul against compassion, and specifically disable the capacity to hear prophetic speech — a man enslaved to these two passions cannot serve God because he walks in effective darkness even in daylight. The citation of Enoch's writings grounds the warning in a pre-flood witness about last-days conditions, framing the sins not as ancient concerns but as patterns that recur and intensify toward the end. A soul so bound cannot offer acceptable sacrifice, receive blessing, or align with the Holy Order's demands.
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For I have read also in the books of Enoch the righteous what evils ye shall do in the last days. Take heed, therefore, my children, of fornication and the love of money; hearken to Judah your father, for these things do withdraw you from the law of God, and blind the understanding of the soul, and teach arrogance, and suffer not a man to have compassion upon his neighbour: they rob his soul of all goodness, and bind him in toils and troubles, and take away his sleep and devour his flesh, and hinder the sacrifices of God; and he remembereth not blessing, and he hearkeneth not to a prophet when he speaketh, and is vexed at the word of godliness. For one who serveth two passions contrary to the commandments of God cannot obey God, because they have blinded his soul, and he walketh in the day-time as in the night.
