OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 23:6

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6

Let neither gluttony nor lust overtake me. Don’t give me over to a shameless mind.

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Verse 6. Foolish, (infrunitæ) is used in this sense by Seneca. Calmet.—Greek has not this epithet. The title, “instruction of the mouth,” follows, ( Bible.) to verse 20. Calmet.

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