1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Sirach 5:8 | Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day. | Day. A rabbin being asked when one must repent? answered, the day before death. But we know not when that will take place! Then, replied he, we must repent to-day. (Drusius) --- "God has promised thee pardon, if thou repent, but he has not promised thee to-morrow." (St. Augustine, Psalm cxiv.) |