Romans 3:16

““Their throat is an open sepulchre.”” — editor's note: [Here the author quotes the African Psalter, no doubt, from which the three verses have passed into the Vulgate. They are in the Septuagint, from which St.…

“For when they condemned them, in the very sentence of their Council they have set down these words: “Swift are the feet of them to shed the blood” (of the proclaimers), “tribulation and calamity are in the ways of them, and the way of peace they have not known.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 7, Vulg. and Angl.; also Rom. iii. 15–17.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, who have not known the way of peace; neither is the fear of God before their eyes.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 13–18.

““Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known.”” — editor's note: Isa. lix. 7, 8; Rom. iii. 16, 17.