Note 135 — Chapter XII · DIRECTIONS AGAINST SCANDAL AS GIVEN.
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Heb. xi. 26.
[136] So Rev. ii. 14. Balaam did βαλλεῖν σκάνδαλον, lay a scandal, or stumblingblock before the Israelites; that is, a temptation to sin.
[137] Luke vii. 23.
[138] Mark vi. 3.
[139] Mark iv. 17.
[140] Psal. cxix. 69.
[141] Vix equidem credar. Sed cum sint præmia falsi Nulla; ratam debet testis habere fidem. Ovid.
[142] Rom. iii. 7, 8; James iii. 14; Job xiii. 7, 8.
[143] Ita comparatum est ut virtutem non suspiciamus, neque ejus imitandæ studio corripimur nisi eum in quo ea conspicitur, summo honore et amore prosequamur. Plutar. in Cat. Utic.