Sirach 15:17 Douay-Rheims

He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.

George Leo Haydock

1774–1849 Catholic

And fire. Or, good and evil, as the Vulgate explains it, (ver. 18.) though the Greek be silent. (Haydock) — The law written on the heart, as well as on the tables of stone, shews man his duty;; and he has free-will to comply with it, Deuteronomy xxx. 15., and Jeremias xxi. 8. (Calmet) — He may enjoy every advantage of life, denoted by these two elements. (Lyr.[Lyranus?]) An quod in his vitæ causa est, hæc perdidit exul His nova fit conjux; hæc duo magna putant. (Ovid, Fast. 4.)

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1849 · Ecclesiasticus 15:17

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