OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 14:4

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Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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Verse 4. Empty. As the land has not bee cultivated. Bible.—Strength, or number of oxen. Calmet.—“The virtue of the preachers is manifested where there are many converted to produce fruit.” Saint Gregory vii. ep. viii.

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