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All such rules are self-evident, and grow necessarily out of the general principle which demands of the functions of the body to subserve the attainment of self-sanctification.

From A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth by Reggio, Isaac Samuele

Against unfruitful self-sanctification He sets up another principle of morality, that of the service of one's neighbour.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius