OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 19:15

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15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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Verse 15. Hunger. Both temporal and eternal. Calmet.—Non progredi, regredi est. Saint Bernard says, “Not to advance, is to go back.”

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