OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 33:14

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Good is the opposite of evil, and life is the opposite of death; so the sinner is the opposite of the godly.

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Verse 14. Ordering. All depend on God. Calmet.—“The predestination of the saints is nothing but the foreknowledge and preparation of God’s benefits, by which those are most certainly liberated who obtain their freedom. But where are the rest left; except in the mass of perdition, by the just judgment of the Deity? Saint Augustine Persev. xiv. n. 35, and Corrept. xiii. n. 42.

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