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Bede, on Jas 4:3
Bede · A.D. 673–735
Jas 4:3 · Douay-Rheims
“You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.”
On this verse:
“Those who continue in their sins ask wrongly. They entreat the Lord ill-advisedly to forgive them sins which they are not prepared to forgive in others.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.