Sentences with phrase «nailed to a cross between»

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However, it is quite possible to distinguish between an active and a passive form of the offended consciousness, if we take care to remember that the passive form is so far active as not to permit itself wholly to be annihilated (for offense is always an act, never an event); and that the active form is always so weak that it can not free itself from the cross to which it is nailed, or tear the arrow from out its wound.5