OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 8:20

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Or rather, being good, I came into an undefiled body.

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Verse 20. More good. The pre-existence of souls seems to be insinuated, though this is not clear, and the opinion is now rejected. Some are born with a better disposition for learning than others. Saint Augustine con. Jul. iv. 3.—Yet none possess any seeds of virtue by nature, or are more infected than others, with original sin, as some heretics would assert. Calmet.

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