Ecclesiasticus — Chapter 27
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
The soule is kept in good state by fearing God.
Verse 5
After that sinne is purged there remaines relikes in the soule, as dust in a seue when the chaffe is cast out, til it be more purged or washed.
Verse 12
Whether the sunne shineth forth or not, it is alwayes light: so is a wise man always vertuous.
Verse 15
A foole, or wicked man, hath no light of vertue in himselfe (like the moone) but sometimes seemeth to haue more light, sometimes lesse, sometimes none at al. S. Bernard.
Verse 28
He that exceedingly doth iniurie to an other is justly punished also in this world.