Sirach 42:1 (WEB)
Don’t be ashamed of these things, and don’t sin to save face:
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“Both secular literature, and the Jewish book entitled Deuterosis, containing besides the canon of divine Scripture thousands of tales, comprise these in their different sects and professions; the vain and wandering loquacity of heretics holds them also.” — editor's note: The Mishna. δευτ™ρωσις is used, however, by St. Jerome for tradition in general. See on Isa. lix. 12–15, in Catal. on Papias, and elsewhere; cf. Ecclus. xlii.…
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