Veil of Virtue, Mask of Vice

Monday, January 30 2017

A veil is a worn to conceal one's virtue and preserve one's humility. Though veils and masks are physical objects, the above quote from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is not strictly literal or symbolic in intention. That's what makes it so intriguing. Whatever blessing or blessings set you apart from others, there is the opportunity to practise modesty. Among the sayings attributed to American statesman Benjamin Franklin is this: "Vice wears a mask because she knows she is ugly." To this I would add that vice is habitually brazen and defies anyone to mention her deliberately displayed ugliness.

Jeremiah 17:9 New Living Translation
"The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

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