OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 5:3

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They will speak among themselves repenting, and for distress of spirit they will groan, “This was he whom we used to hold in derision, as a parable of reproach.

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Verse 3. Within. Or among themselves.—Repenting. In despair.—Reproach. We diverted ourselves with turning them to ridicule. Calmet.—This change of sentiment ( Bible.) proceeds not from the love of virtue, and is useless. Worthington.

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