He said, For five years, as a child, there was nothing before my eyes but my guilt...Day and night God’s hand was heavy upon me. I hungered for deliverance, for my soul fainted within me. I feared lest the very skies should fall upon me, and crush my guilty soul. God’s law had laid hold upon me, and was showing me my sins. If I slept at night, I dreamed of the bottomless pit, and when I awoke, I seemed to feel the misery I had dreamed...with tears and groans, I offered up my prayer, without a hope and without a refuge, for God’s law was flogging me with its ten-thronged whip, and then rubbing [salt into the wounds] afterwards, so that I did shake and quiver with pain and anguish, and my soul chose strangling rather than life, for I was exceeding sorrowful.
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