Likewise also the good works of some are evident beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
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Jerome
AD 420
The words mean this: Certain persons sin so deliberately and flagrantly that you no sooner see them than you know them at once to be sinners. But the defects of others are so cunningly concealed that we only learn them from subsequent information. Similarly the good deeds of some people are public property, while those of others we come to know only through long intimacy with them.
