OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 9:1

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Don’t be jealous over the wife of your bosom, and don’t teach her an evil lesson against yourself.

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Verse 1. Lest. “A husband should teach his wife to be chaste by his own example.” Lact. Relig. vi.

Ipse miser docui quo posset ludere pacto

Custodes eheu! nunc premor arte meâ. Tibul.

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