OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 2:7

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Let’s fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes, and let no spring flower pass us by.

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Verse 7. Time. Septuagint Alex. “of spring.” Bible.—Youth is the spring of life. The voluptuous conclude, from the transitory nature of things, that we should make use of them. Would it not be more rational to despise them? Calmet.

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