1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Titus 1:8 | But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent, | Continent:{ Ver. 8. Continentem, egkrate. The Protestant translate the verb, (1 Corinthians 7:9.) If they cannot contain, let them marry.|} though both the Latin and Greek word signify in general, one that hath abstained, or contained, and overcome himself: yet it is particularly used for such as contain themselves from carnal pleasures. (Witham) |