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How could he become wise who holds the plow, who glories in the shaft of the goad, who drives oxen and is occupied in their labors, and who mostly talks about bulls?
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Verse 25. A scribe; that is, a doctor of the law, or a learned man. Challoner.—Sorrow ( Bible.) and too much employment, are injurious to learning. Calmet.—Sapientiæ otia negotia sunt. Saint Bernard ser. 85. Cant.—When pastors have leisure, they would do well to write, in imitation of Saint Paul, and so forth Worthington.
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