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 Creation had been swallowed up in the gaping bowels of the insatiable sheol, the Good deigned to renew and to restore it." And again: "The form which had been marred was again glorified; the piece of silver which had been lost was found; the sheep that had wandered was brought home safe; the hungry prodigal ate, and left of that which was placed before him; the leaven leavened the three measures of meal; the stranger in Jerusalem, who had fallen among thieves that robbed him in the descent to Jericho, and who was found plundered, wounded, and stricken, despised, and cast out, has been healed." Rh