They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Detracted me, by insinuating that my repentance is hypocrisy. Another mode of detracting is by making known secret faults, (Worthington) as calumny imputes false ones. (Haydock)
Goodness. Septuagint, "justice. "Many Greek and Latin copies add: "They have rejected me, the beloved, (Theodoret; Arabic) as one dead, as an abomination. "
Forsake, ver. 22. (St. Ambrose) (Calmet)