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Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
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John Chrysostom

AD 407
“The memory of the just man will be praised.” But he did not say this because he meant that the departed souls are helped by our praise. He said it because those who praise the departed derive the greatest benefits from remembering them. Since, therefore, we have so much to gain from keeping their memory sacred, let us not reject the wise man’s words but rather let us heed them. Against the Anomoeans, Homily
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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