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Testament of Judah 20
Judah instructs his children that two spirits attend every person — truth and error — while a third, the spirit of understanding, governs the will's direction between them. The works produced by either spirit are recorded upon a man's inward parts and are known to Jehovah without omission or concealment. The spirit of truth stands as perpetual witness and accuser; the one who persists in error carries his own condemnation inwardly, unable to lift his face before the Judge. The chapter frames agency not as neutral capacity but as a contested ground between two opposing spiritual influences.
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Learn therefore, my children, that two spirits wait upon man—the spirit of truth and the spirit of error; and in the midst is the spirit of the understanding of the mind, to which it belongeth to turn whithersoever it will. And the works of truth and the works of error are written upon the breast of men, and each one of them the Lord knoweth. And there is no time at which the works of men can be hid from Him; for on the bones of his breast hath he been written down before the Lord. And the spirit of truth testifieth all things, and accuseth all; and he who sinneth is burnt up by his own heart, and cannot raise his face unto the Judge.
