42
They avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marshes of the Jordan.
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Verse 42. Revenge. To punish faults with moderation and justice, is a virtue. Children and subjects are sometimes exposed to temporal chastisements, for the faults of their parents or leaders; yet this is for their own advancement in piety, or in punishment for the share they have had in the crime, or to prevent them from imitating it. Saint Thomas Aquinas ii. 2. q. 108. Worthington.
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