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As a nail will stick fast between the joinings of stones, so sin will thrust itself in between buying and selling.
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Verse 2. Fast. Anacharsis styled “the market-place the receptacle of mutual cheating.” Laert. 1.—The seller praises his goods to get them off: (Hor.) the buyer says it is bad. Proverbs 20:14. The next verse is a gloss omitted in Greek Calmet.
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