| Wisdom 3:16
| But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.
| Perfection. Literally, "shall be in consummation," or wholly destroyed. (Haydock) --- They shall not come to age, or Septuagint, "initiated." The pagans excluded the base-born from their mysteries, as the Church does from holy orders; and experience shews, that the fruits of adultery are often miserable, (Calmet) and while they imitate their parents, they can have no hope, ver. 18.
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