OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 22:9

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He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

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Verse 9. Is. Hebrew “has a good eye,” in opposition to the evil, or malicious one. Matthew 20:15.—He, and so forth is not in Hebrew or in the Lat. edit. of Comp. and Saint Jerome

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