OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 2:22

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and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls.

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Verse 22. Secrets. The disbelief of mysteries leads to a dissolute life, and to the persecution of the just. Worthington.—The pagans knew not the advantages of suffering, and even the apostles were ignorant of the mystery of the cross, till after the resurrection. Calmet.

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