OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 10:2

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As is the judge of his people, so are his officials. As the city’s ruler is, so are all those who dwell in it.

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Verse 2. Therein. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis. Claud.—As a whole city is infected with the vices of princes, so it may be corrected by their good behaviour, (continentiâ.) Cic. Leg. 3.

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