1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Matthew 6:25 | *Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Psalm 54:23.; Luke 12:22.; Philippians 4:6.; 1 Timothy 6:7.; 1 Peter 5:7. | A prudent provision is not prohibited, but that over-solicitude which draws the soul, the heart, and its affections from God, and his sweet all-ruling providence, to sink and degrade them in empty pursuits, which can never fill the soul. (Haydock) --- Be not solicitous;{ Ver. 25. Me merimnate. It does not seem well translated, take no thought.|} that is too solicitous with a trouble and anxiety of mind, as appears by the Greek. --- For your life; lit. for your soul, which many times is put for life. (Witham) |