When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.
but as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out of the house.”
I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.
I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up any one before the accused met the accusers face to face, and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.
Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,