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...with haughty trampling and downward-dragging effeminacy; by turning aside to the right and to the left, sinning against those before and being an evil example to those after, I have sinned against God. Moreover, I have sinned through the sevenfold transgressions of mortal sins: by Pride and its parts; by Envy and its parts; by Wrath and its parts; by Sloth and its parts; by Greed and its parts; by Gluttony and its parts; by Lust and its parts, I have sinned against God. Moreover, I have sinned against all the commandments of God, both the positive and the negative; for I neither fulfilled the positive commands nor kept away from the forbidden. I received the law and became indolent toward the law. I was invited into the ranks of Christianity, and by my deeds I was found unworthy. Knowing the evil, I willingly bowed down [to it], and of my own accord I removed myself from good deeds. Woe to me! Woe to me! Woe to me! Which [sin] shall I tell, or which shall I confess? For my transgressions are innumerable; my iniquities are unspeakable; my pains are unpardonable; and my wounds are incurable. I have sinned against God. Holy Father, I have you as an intermediary of reconciliation and an intercessor before the Only-Begotten Son...