If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am blameless, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
36. As if it were in plain words; ‘Why should I speak about others, when I cannot bear testimony concerning myself?’ But whereas thou art not competent to witness to thine own innocency, dost thou know the fact that thou art innocent?
