OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 4:15

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15

I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

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Verse 15. Second heir. Menochius.—“They adore the rising (Papinius) more than the setting sun; (Plut. Pomp.) and a person is no sooner on the throne than his successor begins to be courted: (verse 16) so inconstant are mortals! Calmet.

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