OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 15:11

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Don’t say, “It is through the Lord that I fell away;” for you shall not do the things that he hates.

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Verse 11. She. Ignorance and vice are defects, and consequently not the work of God, but of the perversion of free-will. See Jam. 1:13. Ezekiel 33:11. Saint Augustine Grat. &. lib. ii. Calmet.—Beza says, that God ordained Adam’s fall, but for a good end; and decreed justly what men unjustly perform, (ref. Castel. ii.) which is refuted here, and Deuteronomy 7:11. and so forth Worthington.

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