OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 18:20

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Before judgment, examine yourself, and in the hour of scrutiny you will find forgiveness.

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Verse 20. Medicine. This is more requisite and easy to do in the maladies of the soul, which are brought on by our own fault. Principiis obsta. Calmet.—Mercy. Greek, “propitiation in the hour of visitation,” ( Bible.) or punishment. Calmet.

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