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But they say, "Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves." 1 This was not the answer of those who give advice, but of those who mock. And why mock they? Because they were wise, because wisdom was in them. For they were not wise by ought of their own; but that wisdom was in them, of which it is written in a certain book, she shall say to those that despised her, when they have fallen upon the evils which she threatened them; "I will laugh over your destruction." 2 What wonder then is it, that the wise mock the foolish virgins? And what is this mocking?
