| Sirach 33:14
| All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.
| Ordering. All depend on God. (Calmet) --- "The predestination of the saints is nothing but the foreknowledge and preparation of God's benefits, by which those are most certainly liberated who obtain their freedom. But where are the rest left; except in the mass of perdition, by the just judgment of the Deity? (St. Augustine, Persev. xiv. n. 35, and Corrept. xiii. n. 42.)
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