OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 2:5

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5

For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and our end doesn’t retreat, because it is securely sealed, and no one turns it back.

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Verse 5. Sealed, like one in the tomb. Matthew 27:66. The epicureans were well convinced of the fragility of our nature: but they drew false inferences from it, pretending that we should enjoy ourselves now, as there will be no future life. This they ought to have proved. Calmet.

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