OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 8:19

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Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul.

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Verse 19. Received. “By lot,” sortitus, ( Bible.) to exclude all preceding merit. Saint Augustine de Gen. lit. x. 18.—Good soul. Natural dispositions (Pineda) are perfected by grace and labour. Calmet.

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