- VANITY is taken for Lying: Psal. iv. 2. Exod. xx. 7.How long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? And thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; or, thou Eccles. i. 2, 3.shalt not swear to confirm a thing that is false; thou shalt not appeal to the Lord as a Witness of thy Lies. Visions of Vanity, Words of Vanity, signify false and deceitful Discourses, or Lyes.
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Vanity (2)
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