OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 9:12

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12

Don’t delight in the delights of the ungodly. Remember they will not go unpunished to the grave.

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Verse 12. Nor, and so forth is also admitted in many copies, though found in the Comp. and Ald edit. Calmet.—Grabe replaces it on the authority of Clem. (Pæd. ii. 7.) as he does many other passages, which are erroneously left out in several editions. Prolog. t. 4. chapter 3. It would therefore be injurious to the word of God, if we were always to reject the additions in the Vulg. which are not in the Vat. Greek copy; and they must not all at least be considered as interpolations.

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Greek Hades.

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