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Title: THE TEN CMMANDMENTS


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THE TEN CMMANDMENTS
  • THE EIGHT
  • BEATITUDES

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  • Are these ancient codes of moral conduct still
    relevant guides for life in the modern world?
  • How do the Ten Commandments guide us in forming
    and fulfilling the dictates of conscience?

3
John 14 15
  • If you love me keep my commandments

4
The Ten Commandments
  • Who were they given to?
  • Moses / Israelites
  • Where were they given to him?
  • Mount Sinai
  • When were they Given?
  • At the time of exodus from Egypt

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The First Commandment
  • I. I am the Lord your God, you shall not have
    strange gods before me.

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Why Does God Give This Command?
  • What was the culture of this period?
  • Polytheistic
  • Henotheistic
  • Monotheistic
  • The precept of the first commandment demands the
    proper monotheism

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  • Without an awareness of God, we are confined to
    an existence that lacks meaning
  • Gods intention is to save people from their sin.
    We cannot remain passive before his Holy Spirit,
    but must respond appropriately. The response must
    be to believe in him, to trust in his aid, and to
    love him. When this threefold intention is
    maintained before God, we are exercising the
    three theological virtues
  • Faith, Hope, Charity

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Faith
  • The theological virtue by which we believe in God
    and believe all that he has said and revealed to
    us
  • Faith widens the capacity of human knowledge. It
    enables the recipient to accept all the truths
    revealed by God even though they cannot be proven
  • Believing is a free human act, consciously done
    in accordance with human dignity

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Mt 10 32-33
  • 32"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will
    also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
    33But whoever disowns me before men, I will deny
    him before my Father in heaven.
  • What is Jesus telling us in this statement?

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How Do We Deny the First Commandment By Lack Of
Faith?
  • Voluntary doubt refuse to hold what God has
    revealed as true
  • Involuntary doubt hesitant in belief connected
    with the faith and fails to attempt to dispel
    them
  • Atheism refusal to accept Gods existence
  • Apostasy Total repudiation of the Christian faith

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Hope
  • Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire
    the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our
    happiness, placing our trust in Christs promises
    and relying not on our own strength, but on the
    help and grace of the Holy Spirit
  • It keeps us from discouragement sustains us
    during times of abandonment

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  • The first commandment infers that the Christian
    should have trust in God and foster hope in
    eternal life. That hope also includes the hope of
    salvation for all.
  • A sin against this commandment can occur either
    by defect or excess

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Charity
  • Charity is the theological virtue by which we
    love God above all things for his own sake, and
    our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God
  • We ought to love God because he is our Creator,
    our Father, and our Savior
  • Our love for God should reflect Gods love for us

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How Do We Sin Against Gods Love?
  • Indifference
  • Refusing to reflect on the prior goodness and
    power of divine charity
  • Ingratitude
  • Refusal to acknowledge or return Gods love
  • Lukewarm
  • Failure/hesitation to respond to divine love
    also refuse to obey the prompting of charity

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  • Acedia
  • To refuse the joy God gives. It is a form of
    depression that leads to discouragement
  • Hatred of God
  • Opposes the love of God it denies his
    goodness. It is a result of pride

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  • Because our bodies, as well as our souls, were
    created for eternal glory, this commandment asks
    that we care for both

17
  • It is a great insult when a person turns from God
    to creatures and pleasures of limited value

18
Do I Have False Gods in My Life?
  • Power, Money
  • Success
  • T.V., Radio
  • Food, Drugs, Alcohol
  • Sex, Sleep, Privacy
  • Popularity, Winning
  • Appearance, Music, etc.

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The Second Commandment
  • II. You shall not take the name of the Lord
    your God in vein.

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Whats In A Name?
  • That which we call a rose by any other name
    would smell as sweet.
  • - Shakespeare
  • These words are only half true. A name gathers
    many emotional overtones by constant use. It
    ceases to be a group of letters taken from the
    alphabet a name comes to represent the person of
    thing which bears the name.

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  • Emotions are aroused in us by the use of words
  • A young man in love, only has to hear his
    sweethearts name mentioned to make his pulse
    rate rise
  • A man who has suffered great injury at the hands
    of a person named George will have great distaste
    for the name George
  • Men have killed and been killed in defense of
    their good name

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  • Families have grieved because some member of the
    family brought disgrace on the family name
  • In short, a name stands for the one who bears the
    name and our attitude towards the name reflects
    our attitude toward the person whose name it is

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  • Why does Moses ask God for his name?
  • Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the
    Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your
    fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me,
    'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?
    Exodus 313
  • A persons name was part of their
    personality/character
  • To know someone's name inferred a relationship
    with that person

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  • This serves to recall to mind why it is a sin to
    misuse Gods name to use it carelessly or
    irreverently.
  • If we love God, we love his name
  • Indeed, our love for Gods name extends to those
    of his mother, and his friends and saints, and to
    all things which belong to God.
  • God gave us the second commandment so we may
    never forget this aspect of our love for him

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Blasphemy
  • Blasphemy Speaking contemptuously of God or his
    perfections
  • The Jews try to stone Jesus , not for" no good
    works but for blasphemy (Jn 10 33)
  • Blasphemy extends to make use of Gods name to
    cover up criminal practices, to reduce people to
    servitude, to torture persons or put them to
    death

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Do I Use Profanity?
  • Do I make a habit of using profanity?
  • Do I swear oaths?
  • Do I swear in front of children or parents?
  • Do I swear in public places that may offend
    strangers?
  • Do I swear to gain acceptance?
  • Do I simply not have command of the English
    language?
  • Stories on pp 200-01 L-i-C book

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The Third Commandment
  • III. Remember to keep holy the Lords Day
    (Sabbath).

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  • When is the Jewish Sabbath?
  • Friday sunset to Saturday sunset
  • Why do they not worship on Sunday?
  • It is the first day of the weekGod rested on
    the seventh day
  • Why do Christians use Sunday as their day of
    worship?
  • Christ rose on Sunday

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  • By a tradition handed down from the apostles,
    which took its origin from the very day of
    Christs resurrection, the Church celebrates the
    paschal mystery every seventh day. On this day
    Christs faithful are bound to come together into
    one place. They listen to the word of God and
    take part in the Eucharist, calling to mind the
    passion, resurrection, and glory of the Lord
    Jesus.

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Why Go To Church?
  • One cannot avoid this moral duty and go on
    unaffected. When one stops participating in
    Sunday service
  • He loses the gifts of the Holy Spirit
  • His conscience soon becomes deadened
  • This leads to a deterioration in attitudes and
    conduct

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  • Do I go to mass (church) on Sundays and holy days
    / to Temple on the Sabbath?
  • Am I involved in my Church / Temple/ Mosque
    community?
  • Do I take time out to devote strictly to God with
    the community in which I live?

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  • The first three commandments deal with our
    relationship to God. Commandments number 4-10
    deal with our relationship to our fellow man

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The Fourth Commandment
  • IV. Honor your Father and Mother.

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  • God intended that life begin in a family. The
    fourth commandment regulates the moral link in
    family life
  • This commandment includes the relationship
    between husband and wife, parents and children,
    and children and their siblings.
  • It also includes duties to grandparents, and
    other relatives, as well as other relationships

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Love The Foundation Of The Family
  • Love is demanding. Love is the firm foundation of
    the family, a foundation able to endure all
    things
  • Good moral conduct between parents and children
    (and vice versa) and among brothers and sisters
    is absolutely required
  • Christian morality is a morality of charity
    (love). This love begins and grows in the family
    life

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  • It is reflected in the most intimate bonds of
    matrimony
  • The love between a husband and wife gives origin
    to children, and also joins brothers and sisters
    together
  • The family should live in such a way that its
    members care and take responsibility for the
    young, old, sick, handicapped, and poor

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Ephesians 6 1-3
  • Children, obey your parents in the Lord for it
    is right. Honor your father and mother (this is
    the first commandment with a promise), that it
    may be well with you and that you may live long
    on the earth

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The Families Influence On Society
  • The success of all societies is based on the
    success of the family.
  • As each organ of the body is crucial to the
    functioning of the whole body, so does the health
    of particular families contribute to the
    functioning of the body of society.
  • By promoting the well being of the family, we are
    promoting the well being of the society.

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  • Do I give love and honor to my parents?
  • Am I disrespectful?
  • Do I obey, help out?
  • Do I shame them by my actions?
  • Am I a reflection of what they want me to be?

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The Fifth Commandment
  • V. You shall not kill.

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  • Life here is a preparation for life in the
    hereafter
  • As human beings we do not have absolute dominion
    over our lives, but rather a duty of guarding our
    lives and the lives of those around us
  • Every human life, from the moment of conception
    until death, is sacred

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God, The Master Of Our Life
  • Christianity, in regarding the complete
    fulfillment of human life, rejects
  • AUTONOMY
  • (Dependence on ones self)
  • And HETERONOMY
  • (Dependence on someone else)
  • And accepts THEONOMY
  • (Dependence on God)

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  • The human person can find the fullness of his
    being only in union with the Trinity the Father,
    Son, and Holy Spirit

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Matthew 5 21-24
  • You have heard it said to the men of old, You
    shall not kill and whoever kills shall be liable
    to judgment. But I say to you, everyone who is
    angry with his brother shall be liable to
    judgment whoever insults his brother shall be
    liable to the council.

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  • Not only are we required to respect the life of
    another, but we also must value the dignity of
    every person in such a way that any offense that
    violates a persons dignity is condemned
  • The commandment of charity given to us by Jesus
    (love one another as I have loved you enriches
    the formulation of the fifth commandment of the
    Mosaic law

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Conservation of Life
  • Duty to conserve ones own life
  • Only God is the absolute owner of human life.
    We are obliged to take care of life as a good
    steward whose life is on loan from God. Self
    defense is morally acceptable, however, suicide
    is not.

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  • Respect for the life of others
  • If we are not the owners of our own life, we
    cannot dispose of the life of others. Kidnapping,
    torture, and terrorism fall under this category
  • Abortion and rights of the unborn
    All induced abortions are gravely sinful

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  • Have I hurt others physically or mentally?
  • Suicide
  • Abortion
  • Mutilation
  • Euthanasia
  • Name calling
  • Abusing my body with alcohol, drugs, or food
  • sloth.

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The Sixth Commandment
  • VI. You shall not commit adultery.

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  • Marriage is a fundamental and natural part of
    human life
  • Ones gender describes not only ones body, but
    also ones very identity
  • Sexuality effects us at the most elementary level
    of personhood.
  • God created man and woman with a strong
    attraction to each other to insure the
    continuation of the race.

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The 2 Creation Stories Gn 1 26-28 2
18-25
  • Man and woman are equal in dignity. Both are
    created in Gods image
  • Man and woman form a new social unit. Man leaves
    father and mother and become a new family
  • The union is so intimate the two become one. They
    form one flesh
  • Marriage has a procreative end. God directed his
    blessing precisely to this end

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Purposes of Marriage
  • Good of the spouses
  • The sexual union fosters complete self-giving
    and deepens the love for one another. It is both
    a sign and a cause of the perfect union with one
    another which the Holy Spirit calls them

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  • Procreation
  • Conjugal love is a participation in the great
    mystery that results in procreation of new life.
  • The couple is cooperating with God in the
    creation of their children. This is fundamentally
    different from simple reproduction

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  • Joy
  • The marital act, when done as God wills, gives
    glory to God, and is needed to achieve the
    perfect union between the souses

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Properties of Marriage
  • Matrimony is characterized by two essential
    properties
  • 1. EXCLUSIVITY
  • Since marriage involves a tota self giving from
    each spouse, it follows that this gift cannot be
    shared with a third party. One cannot give ones
    self totally to more than one person in the same
    way

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  • 2. INDISSOLUBILITY
  • The stability of marriage is permanent. The unit
    created through the matrimonial bond cannot be
    divided.
  • The totality of giving ones self to their spouse
    is not complete if it is not life long

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  • In what ways do we disregard the sixth
    commandment?
  • Bestiality
  • Onanism
  • Fornication
  • Obscene stories or gestures
  • Pornography
  • Masturbation
  • Oral sex

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The Seventh Commandment
  • VII. You shall not steal.

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Respect For Private Property
  • Theft is taking another's goods against his
    reasonable wishes
  • Doing unjust damage to property
  • Spray-paint property
  • Cheating
  • Unfair pricing
  • Charge excessive interest

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  • Copying
  • Not repaying or retuning something borrowed
  • Vandalism
  • Wasting food and resources
  • Stealing someones good name or reputation.

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The Eighth Commandment
  • VIII. You shall not bear false witness.

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  • Truthfulness is the virtue which consist in
    showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in
    words, and regarding against duplicity,
    dissimulation, and hypocrisy
  • Social life would be impossible if truth is not
    respected as the foundation of social
    communication

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LIES
  • Lying is an evil in itself. it is evil by its
    very nature
  • When a person lies, he betrays himself in thought
    and word.
  • Therefore, a lie connotes a weakness in ones
    personality if he lies because he lacks the
    fortitude to tell the truth and the
    responsibility to assume the consequences of
    professing the truth, whatever the cost

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  • When a person lies to a neighbor, he induces
    him into error and sows doubt and suspicion in
    social relations
  • A lie affects the ability to know, which is a
    condition of every judgment and decision
  • Lying undermines the trust among men and tears
    apart the fabric of social relationships

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  • Do I lie?
  • Habitually exaggerate?
  • Break promises?
  • Gossip?
  • Slander? hurting anothers reputation
  • Detraction?
  • Lie by omission?
  • Explain things non-objectively?
  • Break someone's confidence?

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The Ninth Commandment
  • IX. You shall not covet your neighbors wife
    (spouse).

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Covetousness
  • To covet is a sinful desire
  • A married couple has the right to enjoy
    considerations of their most intimate actions
  • Every one who looks at a woman lustfully has
    already committed adultery with her in his heart
    (Mt 5 28)

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  • The struggle against carnal covetousness entails
    purifying the heart and practicing temperance

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  • How do we disregard the ninth
    commandment?
  • Excessive desire for anothers spouse,
  • Excessive desire for anothers friends
  • or family.

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The Tenth Commandment
  • X. You shall not covet your neighbors goods.

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  • Our appetite leads us to desire things that are
    good in themselves, but excessive desire leads to
    sin
  • This commandment forbids greed, avarice, and envy

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Greed
  • The desire for earthly things without limit. It
    means buying things solely to look rich and
    powerful in the eyes of your neighbor

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Avarice
  • The passionate desire for riches that leads one
    to use money to control others. They become
    hardhearted, unjust, and deceitful people.
    (Ebenezer Scroog)

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Envy
  • Unhappiness at the sight of anothers good
    fortune. It also leads to the sinful desire to
    acquire them by whatever means available

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  • Excessive desire for anothers
  • possessions
  • successes
  • abilities / physical or mental
  • popularity
  • personality
  • Physical appearance

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  • With the Ten Commandments we have a basic code
    of conduct. They do not offer a complete ethical
    program but are general and basic principles of
    conduct. God could only require so much from the
    Israelites because of their unsophisticated
    culture. The Commandments are enriched by the
    life and teachings of Jesus. The Sermon on the
    Mount gives us the example of how to live the
    moral life at the highest level.

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Beatitudes
  • The word beatitude comes from the Latin meaning
    blessed

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The Beatitudes
  • The beatitudes fulfill the Ten Commandments
  • They present attitudes that ensure holiness when
    lived in conjunction with the Ten Commandments
  • The Beatitudes allow us to go beyond the minimum
    requirements of the Commandments

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Called to Imitate Christ
  • Identifying with Christ means accepting a life of
    sacrifice for the salvation of others, just as
    Jesus did.
  • We can accomplish this by living the Beatitudes.
  • They take us beyond the commandments and lead to
    a life of perfection.

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The Beatitudes from Matthews Gospel
  • Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is
    the kingdom of heaven
  • Blessed are those who morn, for they shall be
    comforted
  • Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit
    the earth
  • Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
    righteousness, for they will be satisfied

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  • Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
    mercy
  • Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall
    see God
  • Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
    called sons of God
  • Blessed are those who are persecuted for
    righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of
    heaven

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  • Blessed are you when men revile you and
    persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against
    you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad,
    for your reward is great in heaven (Mt. 53-12)

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  • The Sermon on the Mount demonstrates the openness
    of the commandments and their orientation toward
    the perfection proper to the Beatitudes
  • The Beatitudes are a sort of self-portrait of
    Christ
  • For this reason we are invited to discipleship

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  • People of all ages should be reminded that simply
    avoiding evil and satisfying our minimal duties
    to our neighbors in a minimalistic way can never
    be acceptable is we wish to have a truly just
    society.
  • This is the importance of the Beatitudes. They
    point the way to a truly free and human existence
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