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I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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Verse 26. Reason. Of all things. In this natural wisdom consists. Septuagint “and number.” He examined the pretensions of philosophy, which attempted thus to predict future events; but found that it was all deceit, like a harlot. Olympiod.—He explored the qualities of different things, as an arithmetician counts numbers. Menochius.
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