| Sirach 9:12
| Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed with her:
| Nor, etc., is also admitted in many copies, though found in the Complutensian and Aldus edition. (Calmet) --- Grabe replaces it on the authority of Clement (Paed. 2:7.) as he does many other passages, which are erroneously left out in several editions. (Prolog. t. 4. C. 3.) It would therefore be injurious to the word of God, if we were always to reject the additions in the Vulgate, which are not in the Vatican Greek copy; and they must not all at least be considered as interpolations.
|