OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 1:14

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For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth;

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Verse 14. Health. Good. Genesis 1:31. Calmet.—Poison, or medicine, ( Worthington.) medicamentum. Worthington.—Poison and wild beasts become noxious to man only after sin. It is this which infects the veins. All may derive an antidote from Jesus Christ.

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Or, a royal house

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