OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 4:3

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But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit, and their illegitimate offshoots won’t take deep root, nor will they establish a sure hold.

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Verse 3. Slips. Vitulamina, a word, to which the people were so habituated, that it could not be altered. Saint Augustine de Doct. xii.—Yet some read better ( Calmet.) plantationes. S. Bonav. Lyran.—The offspring of the unchaste will not prosper. Calmet. 3:16.

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