But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Having. Hebrew, "But ye are sewers of lies. "(Calmet)
Septuagint, "unskilful surgeons, (who, instead of sewing up a wound, increase it) and all of you doctors of evil "vain empirics.
Maintainers. Protestants, "ye are all physicians of no value. "(Haydock)
34. By which same words it is clearly shewn that his friends as in the likeness of heretics oppose the decisions of the holy man’s judgment. For it is clear that they do not hold the figure of Catholics, who are termed ‘votaries of wrong doctrines.’ Wherein this likewise ought to be marked, that they are called ‘builders of lies.’ For as an edifice is ‘built’ with stones, so a lie is ‘built’ with words. For when there is not deceitful speech, but a meaning of truth, it is like a fortified mound, arising not by fabrication, but by nature.
