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Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
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Verse 29. Lest after, and so forth Here he wishes to shew us, that we are not to embrace any state of life, particularly that of an ecclesiastic, without previous and serious consideration, whether we shall be able to go through with the difficulties and dangers which will inevitably befall us: lest afterwards we find ourselves constrained to yield to our enemies, who will deride us, and say: This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Tirinus.
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