OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 40:22

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Your eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.

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Verse 22. Green. “The sight of no colour is more agreeable to the eyes.” Pliny xxxvii. 1.—The Church is more excellent than the synagogue. Worthington.

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