OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 25:22

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for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

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Verse 22. Coals of charity; (Saint John Chrysostom in Rom. xii. 20) or, if he prove obstinate, his punishment will be the greater. Geier.—The former sense is more received. Calmet.

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