OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 11:24

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24

Don’t say, “I have enough. What harm could happen to me now?”

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Verse 24. Fruit. Prosperity was a sign of God’s favour, under the old law. Now nothing is more equivocal, and the poor are declared blessed. Calmet.

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