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Ecclesiastes 4:9

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Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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Verse 9. Therefore is not in Hebrew and so forth The miser had better have some society. It is advantageous; though to refrain from its comforts, out of piety, is not blamed. The solitary must be “an angel or a devil.” Calmet.—Society. Besides the advantages of friendship, this implies that a person must have Jesus Christ with him, that he may rise from sin and death by his assistance. Saint Jerome Worthington.

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