A student's accepted extension is that sin becomes heavier and heavier like a snowball falling into the abyss.
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Abyss
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"...perverseness of goodness, there's something that's insatiable about falling into the abyss. And it's almost like a snowball that snowballs down. That I think..."
"...tills. So many were the flames that glittered in the eighth abyss. I made this out as soon as I had come to where..."
"...what i hear is true ever return to life from this abyss then without fear facing infinity i answer you i was a man..."
"...hacked off that would not match the hideousness of the ninth abyss no barrel even though it's lost a hooper hand and peace ever..."
"...a dungeon built by nature. Before I free myself from this abyss, master, I said when I stood up straight, tell me enough to..."
"...hellish valley dark, you were set free. The lost of the abyss. Have they been broken? Or has a new, a changed decree in..."
"...of the outrageous stench thrown up in excess by that deep abyss, we drew back till we were behind the lid of a great..."
"...down to that ravine and the edge of above the cracked abyss. There lay outstretched the infamy of Crete, conceived within the counterfeited cow,..."
"You shall see Leith. But past this abyss, there where the spirits go to cleanse themselves, where their repentant guilt is set aside. Then..."
"...it. Right in the middle of this evil field is an abyss, a broad and yawning pit whose structure I shall tell in its..."
"mankind lay sick in the abyss of a great error for long centuries until the word of god willed to descent to where the..."
"...hellish valley dark, you were set free? The laws of the abyss. Have they been broken? Or has a new, a changed decree in..."
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