OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 3:15

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15

In the day of your affliction it will be remembered for you, as fair weather upon ice, so your sins will also melt away.

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Verse 15. Fail. Bis pueri senes. They do not lose the character of fathers, how infirm soever, ( Calmet.) and those can never truly serve the invisible Deity, who despise their fathers, his visible images on the earth. Philo. Decal.

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