In Solomon, in the Proverbs: "Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away." [4606] Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: "Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block." [4607] Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians: [4608] "To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious." [4609]

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Footnotes:

[4606] Proverbs 20:13 (LXX.).

[4607] Psalm 50:20.

[4608] Oxford edition, "to Titus."

[4609] Titus 3:2.