OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 27:20

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Don’t pursue him, for he has gone far away, and has escaped like a gazelle out of the snare.

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Verse 20. Friend. Septuagint Rom. and Alex. “enemy.” Bible.—This crime is like murder. The Romans sometimes solemnly renounced the friendship of those who had offended them, as Germanicus and Caius did that of Piso. Tacit. An. 2. Suet. 3.

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