95. That we are to live with the good, but
to avoid the evil.
In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Bring
not the impious man into the habitation of the
righteous.”
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Also
in the same, in Ecclesiasticus: “Let righteous men be thy
guests.”
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And
again: “The faithful friend is a medicine of life and of
immortality.”
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Also in the same place:
“Be thou far from the man who has the power to slay, and thou
shalt not suspect fear.”
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Also in the same place:
“Blessed is he who findeth a true friend, and who speaketh
righteousness to the listening ear.”
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Also in the same place:
“Hedge thine ears with thorns, and hear not a wicked
tongue.”
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Also in the seventeenth Psalm: “With the righteous Thou
shalt be justified; and with the innocent man Thou shalt be innocent;
and with the froward man Thou shalt be froward.”
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Also
in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “Evil
communications corrupt good dispositions.”
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Prov. xxiv. 15
.
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Ecclus. ix. 16
.
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Ecclus. vi. 16
.
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Ecclus. ix. 13
.
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Ecclus. xxv. 9
.
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Ecclus. xxviii. 24
.
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Ps. xviii. 25, 26
.
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1 Cor. xv. 33
.