Ecclesiasticus — Chapter 1
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
Mans wisdom is not able to comprehend the works of God.
Verse 4
Eternal glory is the fruit of the fear of our Lord: this one virtue fulfilleth al, but it is the beginning, grounded in true faith, and bringeth forth other vertues, divine gifts, with the fruits of the Holy Ghost, and a ioyful crowne in the end.
Verse 33
Men drowned in sinne thinke the service of God a most tedious and loathsome thing.