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" I fail to see any scriptural basis for the modern assertion that “Sin is not sin to us until we recognize it and are conscious of it.” On the contrary, in the fourth and fifth chapters of that inappropriately neglected book, Leviticus, and in the fifteenth chapter of Numbers, the children of Israel were distinctly taught that there were sins of ignorance that caused people to be unclean and in need of atonement (Leviticus 4:1-35; 5:14-19; Numbers 15:25-29). "

J.C. Ryle , Holiness


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J.C. Ryle quote : I fail to see any scriptural basis for the modern assertion that “Sin is not sin to us until we recognize it and are conscious of it.” On the contrary, in the fourth and fifth chapters of that inappropriately neglected book, Leviticus, and in the fifteenth chapter of Numbers, the children of Israel were distinctly taught that there were sins of ignorance that caused people to be unclean and in need of atonement (Leviticus 4:1-35; 5:14-19; Numbers 15:25-29).