Ecclus.
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"Ecclus" = Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus.
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In farther illustration of this passage from Ecclus., let us consider the Death of the Righteous.
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“Woe be to fearful hearts and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!”—Ecclus. two 12.
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But it does not seem that a habit which a man does not use is for the benefit of others, according to Ecclus.
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I answer that, The vision of the Divine Essence is granted to all the blessed by a partaking of the Divine light which is shed upon them from the fountain of the Word of God, according to Ecclus.
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