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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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Verse 6. It is a proverb, is added by S. Jerom, to make the sentence more striking.—It. He is like a tender plant, ( Calmet.) or wax, or a new vessel.
Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem
Testa diu. Hor. ep. i. ad Lol.
—“Shall wool regain its whiteness after it has been dyed purple?” Saint Jerome ad Lætam.—Hebrew “initiate a young,” and so forth Proportion your lessons to his capacity, and make him relish them.
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