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Annotation CXXIII, On the oath (Matthew 27:34)

“And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall.”

Annotation CXXIII

”And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall.” — Matthew 27:34

On the oath.

Athanasius, in the treatise On the Passion of the Lord, expounding these [words], seems to take away from Christians the faculty of swearing, in whatever cause, even a just one. You have this noted above, Annotation 26.

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