OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 6:8

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but the scrutiny that comes upon the powerful is strict.

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Verse 8. Equally. In proportion to their exigencies, or he punishes all as they deserve. It is not clear that he speaks of grace, as the Pelagians would assert, ( Calmet.) abusing this passage. See Saint Augustine ep. cvi. or clxxxvii.

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