OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 19:15

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Question a friend; for many times there is slander. Don’t trust every word.

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Verse 15. Committed. Or “a false report,” commissio. Calmet.—Greek “a foolish calumny.” Bible.—Monere et moneri proprium est veræ amicitiæ. Cic.

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