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If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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Verse 12. Cord. True charity increaseth in strength as it does in number, (Saint Jerome Worthington.) though friendship may not admit of more than two persons. Bible.—Some explain this triple cord of the blessed Trinity, or of the three monastic vows, the theological virtues, or the parts of penance, and so forth
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