OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 16:29

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for the hope of the unthankful will melt as the winter’s hoar frost, and will flow away as water that has no use.

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Verse 29. Water. The ungrateful and negligent shall find their hopes frustrated, ( Calmet.) as well as the wicked, who expect salvation ( Worthington.) without a change of manners. Bible.—Ingratitude stops the fountain of grace. Menochius.

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