OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 5:8

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Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity.

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Verse 8. Day. A rabbin being asked when one must repent? answered, the day before death. But we know not when that will take place! Then, replied he, we must repent to-day. Drus.—“God has promised thee pardon, if thou repent, but he has not promised thee to-morrow.” Saint Augustine Ps. cxiv.

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