Notes on Ecclesiasticus (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
23:2 That they spare me not in their ignorances, etc: That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips.
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