Chapter XV.—We Must
Adhere to Those Who Cultivate Peace, Not to Those Who Merely Pretend to
Do So.
Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace
with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire
it. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, “This
people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from
me.”
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And
again: “They bless with their mouth, but curse with their
heart.”
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And again it
saith, “They loved Him with their month, and lied
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to Him with their tongue; but their heart
was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His
covenant.”
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“Let
the deceitful lips become silent,
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[and
“let the Lord destroy all the lying lips,
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]
and the boastful tongue of those who have said, Let us magnify our
tongue: our lips are our own; who is lord over us? For the
oppression of the poor, and for the sighing of the needy, will I now
arise, saith the Lord: I will place him in safety; I will deal
confidently with him.”
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Isa. xxix. 13; Matt. xv. 8; Mark vii.
6
.
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Ps. lxii. 4
.
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I.
ἔψεξαν
(blamed).
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Ps. lxxviii. 36, 37
.
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Ps. xxxi. 18
.
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These words
within brackets are not found in the
ms.
, but
have been inserted from the Septuagint by most editors.
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Ps. xii. 3–5
.