Ecclesiasticus 46:22
And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he protested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else, even to a shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man did accuse him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ante tempus finis vitæ suæ et sæculi, testimonium præbuit in conspectu Domini et christi : pecunias et usque ad calceamenta ab omni carne non accepit, et non accusavit illum homo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Shoe. So Abraham declared he would not receive the latchet of a shoe from the king of Sodom, Genesis xiv. 23.
Him. All confessed his integrity, before he delivered up the sovereign power to Saul, 1 Kings xii.
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.