OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 17:19

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He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

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Verse 19. Door. Sixtus V. reads, “mouth:” as some explain the door to mean. A large door supposes that the house is elevated, and thus exposed to danger from winds, and so forth

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