Sentences with phrase «name of a righteous man»

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Because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, they pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father go in to the same maiden, to profane my name; and they lay themselves, down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.20

He considers three different interpretations of the name, one being that of someone who lives down the way from a town, possibly as a farmer, another being a thief, bandit or highway man, and a third as someone who is walking the path, that is, a righteous man.