OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 34:6

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If they are not sent in a visitation from the Most High, don’t give your heart to them.

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Verse 6. Travail. Such things cannot be explained. Twenty people will all give different interpretations.—High, as those of Jacob, Joseph, and so forth were. Yet it is difficult to make the discrimination. Saint Gregory dial. iv. 48.—Homer admits of two sorts of dreams. Odys. xix.

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