1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Timothy 6:5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be piety.

Supposing gain to be piety.{ Ver. 5. Existimantes quaestum esse pietatem, porismon einai ten eusebeian. In the ordinary Greek copies follows, aphistato apo ton toiouton, and so the Protestant translation, from which withdraw thyself. But Grotius and Dr. Wells leave them out, preferring those manuscripts that agree with the Latin Vulgate and with the Syriac.|} The sense is the same, that they make a shew of piety only for gain-sake. (Witham)