31
For it is not the power of things by which men swear, but it is the just penalty for those who sin that always visits the transgression of the unrighteous.
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Verse 31. Just. Lit. “the punishment of sinners always walketh about,” and so forth Bible.—“The stone does not hear thee speaking, but God punishes the deceiver.” Saint Augustine—The pagans supposed that their idols sometimes punished perjury. Juv. Sat. viii.—It is God who does it. Calmet.
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