OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 34:4

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From an unclean thing what can be cleansed? From that which is false what can be true?

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Verse 4. Unclean. This text has been abused, to prove that the sinner cannot confer grace in the sacraments. Calmet.—But Christ does this by his ministry. Saint Augustine Ps. x. n. 6.

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