When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” he became enraged.
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,
I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house, it would be utterly scorned.
If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.
The one who first states a case seems right, until the other comes and cross-examines.
I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
but as soon as I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;