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Job 13:28

And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Rottenness. Septuagint, "an old vessel "or skin, to contain wine (Calmet) My condition might excite pity. (Menochius)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
64. For as a garment is eaten by the moth sprung out of itself, so man containeth rottenness in himself, whereby he consumeth, and that which he is, is that whereby he consumeth that he should not be. Which may be taken in another sense also, if it be said in the voice of man when tempted; And I as a rotten thing am to consume, as a garment that is moth eaten. For man ‘as a rotten thing consumeth,’ in that he is wasted by the corruption of his flesh. And because impure temptation springs up to him from no other source than from himself, like a moth, temptation consumes the flesh, as a garment from which it issues. For man contains in himself the occasion whence he is tempted. Therefore as it were ‘the moth consumeth the garment,’ whilst it proceeded from that very same garment. However, we ought to bear in mind that the moth digs its way through the garment without any sound, and it very often happens that thought pierces the mind in such a way, that the mind itself is not sensi...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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