Notes on The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
4:18 Scarcely: That is, not without much labour and difficulty; and because of the dangers which constantly surround, the temptations of the world, of the devil, and of our own corrupt nature.
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