Sirach 34:9 (WEB)
A well-instructed man knows many things. He who has much experience will declare understanding.
Fathers and councils · 1
“For without temptation no one can be proved, whether to himself, as it is written, “He that hath not been tempted, what manner of things doth he know?” or to another, as the apostle says, “And your temptation in my flesh ye despised not:” for from this circumstance he learnt that they were stedfast, because…” — editor's note: Ecclus. xxxiv. 9, 11.
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