OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 8:13

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Don’t be surety beyond your means. If you give surety, think as one who will have to pay.

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Verse 13. Sinners. Greek “a sinner, lest thou be burnt in the fire of his flame, when he shall be enraged. Bible.—This is not the time for reprehension. Calmet.—The envoys of Ezechias prudently answered nothing to Rabsaces. Saint Jerome in Is. xxxvi.—Useless correction must be avoided. Menochius.

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