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When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
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Verse 1. Sit. Saul sat at table, and the custom of lying down was adopted only a little while before the captivity. It was recent among the Romans. Calmet.—Soliti patres considere mensis. Æn. vii. 170.
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