OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 15:14

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But most foolish and more miserable than a baby, are the enemies of your people, who oppressed them;

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Verse 14. In their pride, they threaten more than they can perform, (Isaiah 16:6) or they take images to be gods, which infants only imagine are men, as Lactantius observes, quoting Lucilius,—

Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena

Vivere et esse homines. Bible.

—Measure. They become insolent, and despise and persecute the servants of God. Worthington.

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