OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 47:15

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Your influence covered the earth, and you filled it with parables and riddles.

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Verse 15. Youth. When other are less informed. This serves to place the apostacy of Solomon in a more striking light. Calmet.—The author seems astonished both at the wisdom and at the folly of this prince, ( Bible.) and apostrophises him. Worthington.

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