Ecclesiasticus 34:4
What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ab immundo, quid mundabitur ? et a mendace, quid verum dicetur ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπὸ ἀκαθάρτου τί καθαρισθήσεται; καὶ ἀπὸ ψευδοῦς τί ἀληθεύσει;
Haydock's commentary
Unclean. This text has been abused, to prove that the sinner cannot confer grace in the sacraments. (Calmet)
But Christ does this by his ministry. (St. Augustine, Psalm x. n. 6.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.