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Proverbs 23:11

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did St. Stephen Our Saviour rescued the adulteress from such a situation, as Daniel had done Susanna. Yet this text may regard poor debtors, Psalm lxxi. 4. (Calmet) Christian bishops used all their influence to preserve the lives of those who did not deserve death. (St. Ambrose in Psalm cxviii. Ser. viii. Off. i. 36., and ep. xxv., and xxvi.)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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