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“The iniquity of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom.”
Strabus, in his Gloss which is called the Ordinary, annotating this clause, said that hypocrisy is a crime far greater than the sin of Sodom.1 See above, on Isaiah chapter 16, Annotation 227.
Right margin: On hypocrisy. (De hipocrisi.) ↩
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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CCXXXIX, On hypocrisy (Lamentations 4:6),” in Annotations on the Old Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta/240-annotation-ccxxxix-on-hypocrisy-lamentations-4-6/.
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