But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The sentence. Literally, the answer of death, by which death seemed unavoidable; and this God permitted to teach us not to trust, or confide, in ourselves, but in him only (Witham)