OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 16:9

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He didn’t pity the people of perdition who were taken away in their sins,

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Verse 9. Of their word, is not in Greek but may imply the effrontery of the Sodomites, who were not ashamed of openly professing their brutality. Ezekiel 16:49. Calmet.

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