OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 22:28

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28

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

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Verse 28. Set. The pagans made a god of Terminus, to prevent disputes. Ovid. Fast. ii.—If it be unlawful to disturb land-marks, how much more so is it to give way to novelty in religion? Deuteronomy 19:14. Calmet.—Solomon is addressing those who follow the true faith. Else the conduct of infidel ancestors should not deter any from embracing the truth. Bible.

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