Sirach 13:6 (WEB)
Does he need you? Then he will deceive you, smile at you, and give you hope. He will speak kindly to you and say, “What do you need?”
Fathers and councils · 1
“With regard, indeed, to the evil lusts which assail them, their prayer has ever assumed some such shape as this: “Take away from me the concupiscence of the belly; and let not the desire of lust take hold of me.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xxiii. 5, 6.
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