OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 7:6

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Don’t seek to be a judge, lest you not be able to take away iniquities, lest perhaps you fear the person of a mighty man, and lay a stumbling block in the way of your uprightness.

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Verse 6. Integrity. A judge is expose to many dangers. 2 Chronicles 19:6. Calmet.—“He must be prudent and firm.” Plato, 2 Rep.—What will become of those who push themselves forward? Saint John Chrysostom hom. xxxiv. in Hebrews 13.

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