OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 32:5

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As a ruby signet in a setting of gold, so is a music concert at a wine banquet.

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Verse 5. Music. Which usually accompanied the meals of the rich. Hor. ii. ode 11.—“A lyre is handed round, on which each one plays. When Themistocles confessed that he knew not how, he was deemed deficient.” indoctior. Tusc. i. Quint. i.

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