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Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
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Verse 6. Number. Those who observe dreams, are filled with apprehension. The Jews were very subject to this superstition. Calmet.—As dreams are vain, so are many words or excuses to evade a vow. Jun. Grot.—Such pretences must not be made. Saint Jerome Menochius.
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