OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 3:13

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13

If he fails in understanding, have patience with him. Don’t dishonor him in your full strength.

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Verse 13. A father. Greek, “mother.” Alexander was ashamed of having Philip for his father, pretending that he was the son of Jupiter Ammon. His mother Olympias, with much ingenuity, wrote to him, that he would thus make Juno her powerful rival!

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