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For their worshipers either make merry to madness, or prophesy lies, or live unrighteously, or lightly commit perjury.
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Verse 28. Mad. Like the Bacchanalian women, running crowned with serpents, and eating raw flesh.—Lies. The delusions of the devil, or the fraud of priests.—Easily. Those who believe not in religion, or in the power of him by who they swear, can give no security by an oath. They fear no harm. verse 29. Yet they are perjured if they believe Jupiter, for example, to be a god, (Saint Augustine ep. 54. ad Pub.) and if they do not, they are impious; abusing an oath, which is in itself sacred. Calmet.
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