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“And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall.”
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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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CXXIII, On the oath (Matthew 27:34),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/124-annotation-cxxiii-on-the-oath-matthew-27-34/.
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