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It is true that in the holy Scriptures many are called righteous, as Zachariah and Elizabeth, Job, Jehosaphat, Josiah, and many others who are mentioned in the sacred writings. Of this fact I shall, if God gives me grace, give a full explanation in the work that I have promised; in this letter it must suffice to say that they are called righteous, not because they are faultless but because their faults are eclipsed by their virtues. In fact Zachariah is punished with dumbness, [Luk 1:20-22.] Job is condemned out of his own mouth, [Job 42:6.] and Jehoshaphat and Josiah who are beyond a doubt described as righteous are narrated to have done things displeasing to t ...
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