| Sirach 15:17
| He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.
| And fire. Or, good and evil, as the Vulgate explains it, (ver. 18.) though the Greek be silent. (Haydock) --- The law written on the heart, as well as on the tables of stone, shews man his duty;; and he has free-will to comply with it, Deuteronomy 30:15., and Jeremias 21:8. (Calmet) --- He may enjoy every advantage of life, denoted by these two elements. (Lyr.[Lyranus?]) An quod in his vitae causa est, haec perdidit exul His nova fit conjux; haec duo magna putant. (Ovid, Fast. 4.)
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