OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 19:24

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Better is one who has little understanding, and fears God, than one who has much intelligence and transgresses the law.

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Verse 24. And. Greek “there,” and so forth Bible.—The hypocrite abstains from exterior crimes, only through fear. Calmet.—False pretence of piety, is hypocrisy; and it is wrong for a superior to reveal his secret faults to his subjects. Reason must direct. Worthington.

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