FEW subjects perhaps have given birth to more grave and earnest discussion than that which is now to claim our attention. And so much extravagance has been indulged in by the respective advocates of the two extreme positions--the friends and the enemies of human creeds--that it is with reluctance I venture to record my judgment on the premises. But bearing so palpably as the question does upon the grand design of the present treatise, its consideration [154] could not be wholly disregarded without exhibiting a manifest deficiency, while the work perhaps would fail thereby to accomplish its principal object. I shall, therefore, disregard the considerations which have tempted me to confine my remarks to the most general aspects of the subject, and endeavor to bring out somewhat prominently its specific characteristics, in so far as they are connected with exegetical science.

      We have seen that the Augsburg Confession of Faith was a practical repudiation of the principles of Protestantism; that it introduced the most uncompromising and intolerant dogmatism; that it established a precedent which, with here and there an exception, has, been followed by the founders of all Protestant sects; and that it superinduced the dogmatic method of interpretation--the necessary result of dogmatic creeds.

      It must now be determined, to the satisfaction of those interested, whether the principle that private judgment is the right of all, that upon which Luther and his compeers acted, was right or wrong; for if it was right then, it is right now; and if wrong now, it was always wrong. It must be either right or wrong;--let us try the creeds upon each of the suppositions:--

      1. First, then, we take the ground that the principle is absolutely right; then it follows that all Protestants who have departed from it by making a "positive creed" which determines beforehand what the interpretation of a large part of revelation shall be, and which inflicts penalties and disabilities for departing from that interpretation, are [155] standing out in opposition to the right; for if the principle be right, to make a creed which violates it must be wrong. I am aware that when this point is pressed, the advocates of creeds reply that they are not authoritative, not positive and dogmatic, and do not control the judgment. But this is as much as to say that they are mere useless lumber. What good is there in a creed which is not enforced? What benefit in rules which do not bind? Why retain a confession which is but a dead letter? Such questions always bring out in one form or another the confession that creeds are "necessary as standards of orthodoxy;" that they are "indispensable to keep out heresy;" that they are "essential to maintain uniformity!" But if they do all this, then they have life, influence, power, authority; then they control the judgment; then they violate the principle of Protestantism; then they are wrong, if that principle is right!

      2. They are forced, therefore, in consistency, to flee to the other hypothesis, and to take hold of the other horn, that the principle itself is wrong. Let us admit, then, for the sake of the argument, that it is wrong; that it is not adapted to the use of men in their present condition; that men have not the right to exercise private judgment, and to interpret Scripture for themselves. Then it follows that the whole Protestant movement was wrong from its inception; because neither Luther, nor Calvin, nor Melanchthon, nor Zwingli, had the right to interpret Scripture contrary to the canons and decretals of the church. They based their right of forming an independent judgment upon the [156] correctness of the general principle, and if that principle was wrong, then their action was wrong. But if the principle was right, then all the subsequent development of Protestantism was wrong in not carrying it out. Whether, therefore, the principle is right or wrong, Protestant creeds are left wholly without defense.

      But the other distinguishing principle of Protestantism--the Bible alone--has been shown in a previous chapter to be also inconsistent with the various rules of faith and practice which are enforced along with it; hence, looking at the subject only in the light of these two principles, our course is plain: we must, to be consistent, either give up our creeds or our principles. If we give up the creeds, we shall retain all the wisdom and truth, all the precepts and promises, all the hopes and enjoyments, and all the instruction and consolation, which God has furnished us in his word. We lose nothing but our inconsistency, while we place ourselves in the attitude most favorable to the reception of the communications of the Bible, in their true and consistent sense. Whereas, if we give up our principles, we prove our creeds to be wrong in the very making of them, while we perpetuate in society the false interpretations to which they have given birth. A revolution of some kind must sooner or later take place; for whether the fundamental principles of Protestantism be true or false, they imperatively demand a radical change in the constitution of Protestant society. If true, they must be carried out--if false, we must go back to Romanism. [157]

      Let us now look into the constitution of the creeds, and observe the materials of which they are made. In the first place, they give false views of the Christian faith, by exalting metaphysical speculations to an equality with the divine facts revealed and assured to our belief. Not content with the simple faith of the first Christians, they embody speculative views concerning the divine nature, the human mind, the origin of evil, the necessity and freedom of the will, the eternal decrees of God, etc. etc., as parts of the faith of the gospel; and then the acceptance of creeds thus formed is made a prerequisite to membership. Thus undue importance is given to matters which, if treated of at all in revelation, are always distinctly subordinate. Things are assigned to the first place in the creeds, which in the Bible have the second. Take, for example, the subject of Election. In those creeds which embrace it in any of its phases, it forms a prominent and essential part of the faith; and, as a matter of course, it must be looked into, weighed, and studied over by every one who desires and proposes to join the church,--and his mind must be satisfied upon it before he can, as an honest man, come forward and publicly profess to believe it as it is recorded in the confession before him. Whereas, Peter and Paul, on the contrary, said nothing whatever on that subject in preaching to the world. With them, it formed not a part--of the faith, but of the subsequent instruction. They also were primarily concerned [158] in inducing men to accept the grace of God, rather than in perplexing their minds with the question, whether it were possible to fall from or lose that grace. This belonged to a subsequent period. And so of every speculation upon every "doctrinal" subject in the various creeds of Christendom, whether true or false, in themselves considered, they are false in the position they are made to occupy. They were never presented to the world by the Apostles as primary objects of faith.

      Indeed, no doctrine of the Bible is, independently, or in itself, an object of faith. It is embraced in the great fact that Jesus is the Christ. We are required to believe in him, and this involves the acceptance of all he teaches; while the doctrine is not commended to us by testimony concerning itself, but by testimony concerning Him who teaches it. In this appears the propriety of the order observed by the Apostles. They first presented Jesus and him alone, in all the glory of his Sonship and Messiahship--his person and offices, accompanied by testimonies calculated to make men " believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." Having produced this faith in him as Prophet, Priest, and King, they did not have to convey his doctrine "in the words which man's wisdom teacheth," but simply to propound and enforce it by his authority, in the words of his Spirit, as something which they were pledged by their faith to receive. All sound Christian doctrine, then, stands or falls with this faith. Take it away, and all the speculations of the creeds, allowing them every one to be true, will vanish "like the baseless fabric of a vision." Not being [159] themselves fundamental, not being independent objects of belief, so soon as the faith from which they have sprung, and by which they are supported, is destroyed, they must fall with it. Hence, as all true doctrine upon all spiritual subjects flows directly and necessarily from the intelligent and implicit belief in Jesus, embracing the profound and ample significance contained in the proposition that he was and is the Christ, the Son of God, this is the only primary and fundamental object of the Christian faith,--the true center from which radiates all the light and truth of the Bible. Hence, too, all those systems which equalize this faith with metaphysical speculations, and doctrines not fundamental, whether those doctrines be true or false in themselves considered, destroy the symmetrical proportions of the Bible, and place men in false positions from which to study Christ's institutions.

      Every creed, therefore, which contains more than is necessary to constitute a man a Christian, is unapostolic, pernicious, and schismatic; generating strife and division, and debarring worthy persons from the privileges of the church; while every one which contains less, is worthless by falling short of saving faith, and delusive by keeping this deficiency out of sight. Now the only faith in Christendom which contains neither more nor less than what is essential to the constitution of a Christian, is that preached by the Apostles in the original propagation of the gospel.

      To make this evident, we have only to place the respective advocates of the various creeds on the stand, and hear them testify to the non-essentiality of their most cherished [160] points. We take a Calvinist, for example, and ask him, Can a man be a Christian w ho does not believe your doctrine of eternal, unconditional, and personal election? And notwithstanding he may be a most strenuous advocate of the dogma, he will solemnly respond in the affirmative. Then, we answer, that doctrine is not essential to the constitution of a Christian, and has been unduly and unwarrantably exalted in being placed among the necessary and fundamental articles of the Christian faith. We next take an Arminian and put the same question, Can a man be a Christian who rejects your peculiar views as distinguished from Calvinism? And dear as those views are to him, and zealously as he has advocated them, he is constrained by the force of truth and conscience to answer in the affirmative. Then we make the same charge against him--that he has corrupted the simple faith of the gospel, by introducing as articles of faith matters which belong to a different category. And so if we should go through the several articles in the various creeds and confessions of Protestant sects, we should find them filled--not only in the judgment of their opponents, but also in that of their advocates--with matter which, being extraneous and non-essential, must necessarily be schismatic and pernicious.

      But suppose we apply this test to "the faith which was once delivered to the saints,"--that which is common to all, that which gives to all alike the title to be recognized as Christians even by their opponents,--and how different the response 1 Can a man be a Christian who does not believe that the Christ has come in the flesh, that Jesus of [161] Nazareth was and is that Christ, that he is the Son of God? In short, can he be a Christian who does not believe the gospel? The answer is an emphatic No! without the least hesitation, from every shade and type of Protestantism. The reason is, that this faith is recognized and felt to be that which is essential to the constitution of a Christian. Nothing short of this is sufficient; nothing more is necessary. But to believe this is to oblige one to obey all the commandments, to heed all the instructions, and to cherish all the promises of the Saviour, either oracularly delivered in person or by those to whom he delegated the authority. In fact, the whole Bible is but a radiation from this glorious personage; and all its facts, precepts, promises, hopes, fears, and enjoyments, are intimately and indissolubly connected with him. To believe in him, then, is to believe in and accept the whole Bible; and to have no other faith is to reject all but the Bible, which brings us, literally and practically to the great cardinal principle of Protestantism--THE BIBLE, THE WHOLE BIBLE, AND NOTHING BUT THE BIBLE.

      And standing at this angle, all the doctrine of revelation, whether on the subject of election, predestination, sin, holiness, sacrifice, atonement, grace, faith, works, justification, redemption, glory, honor, immortality--in short, every divine communication, will be viewed not as revolving around the centers of Calvinism, or Arminianism; of Lutheranism, Universalism, Trinitarianism, or Unitarianism; but around Christ, the great central sun of the spiritual solar system. All the motives and temptations for distorting the [162] Scriptures will be taken away, and the distortion itself must cease. Men having no system of their own to support, and being connected alone with the system of Christ, will be willing to let the Bible mean what it says; and ceasing to dogmatize as proficients, they will begin meekly to study as disciples.

      Another serious objection to human creeds, and one which the above position alone will enable us to remove, is that they are mainly the offspring of extreme views. They are not generally the sober conclusions of a calm, cool, and dispassionate judgment, but the result of fiery contests and furious debates. The enemies of a supposed truth drove its friends to express it in stronger terms than the Bible will justify; to prevent it from being undervalued, they gave it too much prominence. The consequence has been, a destruction of the beautiful symmetry and just proportions possessed by the Christian system as it emanated from the hands of its Author. Thus all parties have usually taken extreme ground,--one going too far to the right, and another to the left; while truth was passed over by all, and left, unappropriated, in the middle. An apt illustration of this, and one which has the advantage of being familiar, is found in the ground taken by the respective advocates of justification by faith, and justification by works. There can be no doubt that faith is a cardinal item in Christianity, one absolutely essential to a man's acceptability in the sight [163] of God; equally clear is it that good works are authoritatively enjoined, and form an essential element in the Christian character. It would seem to be but the dictate of common sense, then, to blend the two together, insisting upon both, in the order in which the Scriptures present them, as equally divine. Instead of which the great labor of theologians seems to have been to separate them, and force the Scriptures to teach that here and hereafter a man is justified either by faith alone, or by works alone. Neither position is true; works without faith are utterly valueless, and faith without works is dead and powerless. The Scriptures quoted by each party are true, full of meaning, and immensely important; but they become false in their application of them to these extreme views.

      I am persuaded, from a somewhat careful and impartial study of polemic theology, compared with the teachings of the holy Scriptures, that in a large majority of instances all parties are wrong. In seeking to separate their views entirely from those of their opponents, to give them a conspicuous distinctness, and to form them into an independent system, they have broken up the, connections and destroyed the relations in which the subjects are found in Holy Writ, and have given them a false coloring, a factitious value, and an unscriptural importance. Let any one dispassionately read the Bible with reference, for instance, to the controversy between the Calvinists and Arminians, and I am persuaded, if he accept without reserve the teaching of that book, that he will reach a conclusion widely differing both from the one side and the other, and which yet partakes [164] somewhat of the nature of each. The texts which have been held to teach the respective doctrines are commingled in Scripture, and reciprocally modify and limit each other's meaning. Schoolmen and controversialists separate them, tear them away with violent hands from the connections which serve to qualify and explain them, and the result is, if not falsehood, a gross perversion of truth. And now, as if to prevent mankind from ever looking at them with unbiased eye, as they really exist in the Bible, these ultra views are embodied in a platform or creed, and their respective advocates go forth to muster volunteers. The impression is unavoidably produced that one side or the other must be right; and no one seems to think that both may be right when modified, and both wrong as they are.

      Now if men were left free, i. e. if they were not forced to give in their adhesion to one view or the other upon peril of being debarred the privileges of the church, or--for it amounts to this practically--upon the peril of losing their souls, these errors would be more easily and speedily corrected. But such is not the case. These ultra notions are made the basis of a church, and every member pledges himself to their support. Having once taken the step, we all know the difficulty in the way of formal retraction. Men have an instinctive dread of being called inconsistent, and with most men consistency means never to change! To avoid this the Scriptures are interpreted according to those false methods we have endeavored to expose, and by means of allegory, mysticism, and dogmatism, the system can [165] maintain its ground until it expires as if by its own limitation; for all human systems, in matters of religion, must inevitably be temporary. Called into being by the circumstances and prejudices of a particular age or nation, they can never be permanent or universal. Their importance is factitious, and their beauty of appearance results rather from the excited state of those who gaze upon them, than from any conformity of their nature to the true principles of moral and spiritual æsthetics. Hence, notwithstanding the difficulties in the way, they are perpetually changing, receiving modifications, additions, and special adaptations, to enable them to maintain their influence in society, and exhibit the phenomena of a vitality which is not inherent. While hundreds of human systems have flourished for a time and then passed forever from the history of the church, others have taken their place and are now undergoing those changes which are the stamp of their origin.¹ Calvinism is not what it was; Arminianism has changed its face; other isms have been forced to adapt themselves to the requirements of an increasing intelligence; and if the founders of existing sects could rise from the dead, they could with difficulty recognize their own churches. The men who to-day are prostituting their talents in the well-meant labor of fitting Scripture to their systems, will have their work remodeled by their successors, as they have undone that of their fathers. Gradually, mayhap imperceptibly, [166] the change will take place, and thus the standard of orthodoxy which tests the meaning of the Bible will be perpetually different, while the Bible will be perpetually perverted to its support.

      Before dismissing the subject, it is proper that we should give a respectful hearing to what may be urged in favor of that which we have felt called upon to oppose. We will therefore give a somewhat lengthy extract from Archbishop Whately, an author distinguished alike for logical acumen and profound scholarship. And the reader will observe--unless we have entirely mistaken the meaning of the learned prelate--that while his conclusion is against us, his premises and his arguments are all for us.²

      "We are inclined to think," says he, "that if Christians had studied the Scriptures carefully and honestly, and relied on these more than their philosophical systems of divinity, the incarnation, for instance, and the Trinity, would never have been doubted, nor named. And this at least is certain, that as scientific theories and technical phraseology gained ground, party animosity raged the more violently.

      "The proper objection to the various philosophical systems of religion,--the different hypotheses and theories that have been introduced to explain the Christian [167] Dispensation,--is not the difficulties that have been urged (often with good reason) against each, separately; but the fault that belongs to all of them equally. It is not that the Arian theory of the incarnation, for instance, is wrong for this reason, and the Nestorian for that, and the Eutychian for another, and so on; but they are all wrong alike, because they are theories relative to matters on which it is vain and absurd and irreverent to attempt forming any philosophical theories whatever. And the same, we think, may be said of the various schemes (devised either by those divines called the Schoolmen, or others,) on which it has been attempted from time to time to explain other religious mysteries also in the divine nature and dispensations. We would object, for instance, to the Pelagian theory, and to the Calvinistic theory, and the Armenian theory, and others, not for reasons peculiar to each one, but for such as apply in common to all.

      "Philosophical divines are continually prone to forget that the subjects on which they speculate are, confessedly, and by their own account, beyond the reach of the human faculties. This is no reason, indeed, against our believing anything revealed in Scripture, but it is a reason against our going beyond Scripture with metaphysical speculations of our own. One of the many objections to this is, that they thus lay open Christianity to infidel objections, such as it would otherwise have been safe from.

      "What the Scriptures are concerned with is, not the philosophy of the human mind in itself, but (that which is properly religion) the relation and connection of the two [168] beings;--what God is to us, what he has done and will do for us, and what we are to be and to do in regard to him."

      After illustrating this point, and showing that men must, ex necessitate rei, exercise the right of private judgment to a certain extent, he proceeds to speak of catechisms, creeds, and symbols more particularly, and says:--

      "This would have seemed a most obvious and effectual mode of precluding all future disorders and disputes; as also the drawing up of a compendious statement of Christian doctrines would have seemed a safeguard against the still more important evil of heretical error. Yet if any such statements or formularies had been drawn up, with the sanction and under the revision of an Apostle, we may be sure they would have been preserved and transmitted to posterity with the most scrupulous and reverential care. The conclusion, therefore, seems inevitable, that either no one of the numerous elders or catechists ever thought of doing this, or else they were forbidden by the Apostles to execute any such design; and each of these alternatives seems alike inexplicable by natural causes. Since, then, no one of the first promulgators of Christianity did that which they must--some of them at least--have been naturally led to do, it follows that they must have been supernaturally withheld from it, how little soever we may be able even to conjecture the object of the prohibition. . . . . That a number of Jews, accustomed from their infancy to so strict a ritual, should, in introducing Christianity, have abstained [169] not only from accurately prescribing, for the use of all Christian churches forever, the mode of divine worship, but even from recording what was actually in use under their own directions, does seem utterly incredible, unless we suppose them to have been restrained from doing this by a special admonition of the Divine Spirit."

      Such are the premises, and such the arguments and seasonings of the learned Archbishop. We thank him for them; for we think they are not only true and unanswerable, but that, being such, they triumphantly sustain the position we have feebly attempted to occupy. But what is his conclusion? It is briefly this: That the Divine Spirit prohibited the making of creeds and symbols, "that all churches might be free to arrange these matters according to the circumstances or exigencies of each particular case!" And such is the conclusion of the author of the "Elements of Logic!" The Holy Spirit did not bind men to symbols of divine, that the church might be free to bind them to those of human authority! The Divine Spirit prohibited competent men making creeds, that incompetent men might be free to do so! The first Christians were "supernaturally withheld" from following the "natural" promptings of the human heart, as proof to all subsequent Christians that these "natural" promptings are right! The Spirit of God forbade the making of confessions of faith, therefore it is the privilege and duty of the church to make them! According, then, to the reasoning of our standard logician, murder, theft, robbery, drunkenness, and adultery, fall legitimately within the circle of Christian freedom. They are the [170] "natural" promptings of the heart, "forbidden" by the holy Spirit, and are, therefore, right and proper!

      But it is only when the distinguished Archbishop is fettered by his own inconsistency that he is forced to make such havoc of Scripture and logic. Give him but the smallest portion of freedom--or even the semblance of it--and his mind instantly manifests its accustomed clearness and strength. For instance, speaking of the effect of creeds, had they been formed by apostolic direction,--which, we remark, is equally true, in the different parties, of those formed upon the above logic,--he says:--

      "In fact, all study, properly so called, of the rest of Scripture,--all lively interest in its perusal, --would have been nearly superseded by such an inspired compendium of doctrine; to which alone, as far the most convenient for that purpose, habitual reference would have been made in any questions that might arise. Both would have been regarded, indeed, as of divine authority; but the compendium, as the fused and purified metal--the other, as the mine containing the crude ore. . . . . . The orthodoxy of most persons would have been, as it were, petrified, like the bodies of those animals we read of incrusted in the ice of the polar regions; firm fixed, indeed, and preserved unchangeable, but cold, motionless, lifeless.

      "It is only when our energies are roused, and our faculties exercised, and our attention kept awake, by an ardent pursuit of truth, and anxious watchfulness against error, when, in short, we feel ourselves to be doing something towards acquiring, or retaining, or improving our [171] knowledge,--it is then only, that that knowledge makes the requisite practical impression on the heart and conduct."

      Here, again, we admire the reasoning and embrace the truths of the able gentleman, but are forced to reject his conclusion. It is as follows: "To the church, then, has her all-wise Founder left the office of teaching, to the Scriptures that of proving the Christian doctrines."

      This we must regard as most pernicious. It is the office of the church, we think, to teach the Scriptures,--TO PREACH THE WORD,--and not some symbols or creeds called "Christian doctrines," which every party thinks may be proved by the Scriptures. But the ground of the Archbishop is precisely that occupied by the religious world. The Scriptures are not consulted as the teacher of Christ's religion, but to find proof of every man's creed. And as, according to the methods hitherto pursued, almost anything can be proved by the Scriptures, they have come to mean anything, or everything, or nothing, "according to the circumstances or exigencies of each particular case."

      We know of no abler or more respectable advocate of human creeds than the right reverend gentleman we have just quoted. And from what he advances, we see nothing to change, but everything to confirm us in the correctness of the position previously assumed: that a standard of orthodoxy can only be made among Protestants by the exercise of the right of private judgment, and then can only be a standard by taking away that right; that, hence, we must either give up our principles in order to retain our standards,--and thus go back to Rome,--and then, after [172] all, we must give up our standards because they do not rest upon principle, and because, not being infallible, they do not meet the requirements of the case; and thus, by another road, we get back to Rome. All of which is avoided by giving up our standards and retaining our principles, thus being Protestants in fact as well as in theory.

      Viewing the subject, therefore, in the light of its bearings upon the science of interpretation alone--for all we have said has had respect to this--we are constrained to believe that a consistent, satisfactory, and uniform interpretation of God's holy book--such as meets the just requirements of the case--is dependent primarily upon the sacrifice of all human standards and symbols of faith. By this I do not mean written creeds exclusively, but all prejudice of whatever kind, and I specify written speculations and theories more particularly, because they render prejudice more inflexible and difficult of removal, and because they seem to compel men, as if by the wand of authority, to resort to those logical abuses and self-impositions which we have seen culminating in the Scholastic dogmatism of the fourteenth century.

     
In advocating this course, which may seem harsh and radical to some, but which, nevertheless, is believed to be the true conservatism, I have the satisfaction to know that in an analogous case it resulted in that very certainty and agreement so much needed and desired in religion. So long as the Dogmatic Method was pursued in the study of nature, there was no unanimity among men and no satisfaction in their [173] conclusions. Every man had his cherished theory, and the object of his study was to harmonize nature with it. Hypotheses and counter-hypotheses existed without number, while the volume of nature was not asked to teach, but to confirm, to prove. The more phenomena that could be explained upon any theory just as now the more Scripture that can be expounded in accordance with some dogma--the greater the triumph. There was, consequently, no well-defined natural science until Lord Bacon induced men to abandon their theories--to give up all their idola, false appearances, or prejudices--and consult nature for truth, and not for proof.

      The result was an incalculable advancement in every department of science. The controversies about theories, hatched out in the study, were hushed; and men set to work to learn the laws of nature from nature itself, and not as formerly to make laws for it. As a part of the fruit of this change of method, we have the science of Astronomy in all its accuracy, wonder, and glory,--those of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Botany, and others, all resting, as far as they have been brought to perfection, upon bases of unquestionable facts, with not a voice in all the world raised in controversy against them. Nor is it deemed necessary, in order to keep out scientific heresy, to weave the conclusions thus reached into a sort of authoritative creed; for it is found to conduce to the progress of truth, and not falsehood, to leave every mind perfectly free to question, controvert, oppose, reject, or adopt them, as his reason or folly may determine; but to command respect and attention [174] his objections must be based, like the sciences themselves, upon facts. To cavil at, or oppose these, is simply to make one's self ridiculous and contemptible.

      The ten thousand subjects of controversy, which men thought could never by any possibility be settled, have all been dissipated, and everything is reduced to one single point--Are these the facts? While speculative and metaphysical theories necessarily receive a particular type, color, and modification from every individual mind, and are, therefore, as infinitely various as are the mental capacities which embrace them, facts are the same to all.

      We have said that by inaugurating the true method of consulting nature, Bacon destroyed the influence of dogmatism in scientific research; but he confined his labors almost exclusively to the volume of physical nature, while the old method maintained the ascendency over the volume of revelation, as it did for a long while in metaphysics.³ [175]

      In the following book we shall make an attempt to show that in so far at least as they are the sources of our faith and practice, the Scriptures admit of being studied and expounded upon the principles of the inductive method; and that, when thus interpreted, they speak to us in a voice as certain and unmistakable as the language of nature heard in the experiments and observations of science.⁴ [176]

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