OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 33:16

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I was the last on watch, like one who gleans after the grape gatherers.

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Verse 16. Of all. Solomon, Ezechias, and so forth made various collections of similar maxims. Calmet.—The books of the Machabees were alone written after this in the Old Testament. Menochius.—Greek places what follows after Calmet. 30:26. These four verses may be regarded as a sort of preface. Bible.

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