1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Proverbs 15:8 | *The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable. Proverbs 21:27.; Ecclesiasticus 34:21. | Wicked. Still unconverted, Ecclesiasticus 34:23. When they repent, and offer sacrifice with sincerity, they will obtain mercy. The Donatists abused this text, to prove that baptism conferred by wicked ministers was unavailing. But St. Augustine shewed them, that Christ was the principal agent, and conferred grace, even though the minister might draw down judgments on his own head. (Con. Parm. 2:6.) --- Even pagans confessed, that sacrifices, without virtue, could afford no benefit. "God was more pleased with the prayers of the Lacedemonians, than with all the sacrifices of the Greeks," say the idolatrous priests in Plato, Alcib. 2:Seneca de Ben. 1:5. |