OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 16:4

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The LORD has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

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Verse 4. Day. His obduracy is of his own choice, and must serve to set the divine justice in the clearest light. Sirach 32:14. Exodus 9:16. Others hence infer that predestination is gratuitous, and reprobation in consequence of sin. It seems rather that temporal goods and evils are here meant. Calmet.

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