Sirach 13:1

Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 71

  “We read in Ecclesiasticus: “he that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xiii. 1.

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 49

  “Who “toucheth pitch, and is not defiled thereby?” who is not weakened by the flesh? who is not begrimed by the dust? who, lastly, is of such purity as not to be polluted by those things without which one cannot live?” — editor's note: Ecclus. xiii. 1.

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• Matthew 5:7

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• Matthew 5:9

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• Matthew 7:14

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• Matthew 16:19

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• Romans 8:24

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• 1 Corinthians 7:29

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• 1 Corinthians 7:30

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• 1 Corinthians 7:31

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• 2 Corinthians 4:18

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• James 1:5

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• James 3:2

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.

• Wisdom 2:24

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.