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The Phrase Delusive
Bunker, John | July 20, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on epigram "A friend in a need is a friend indeed." The epigram reminds the author of a friend who troubles him occasionally with his novel interpretation of the familiar Biblical saying that "Charity covers a multitude of sins." That charity here signifies not almsgiving or philanthropy, as is commonly supposed, but love, and more specifically love of God, is, of course, no news to him as to one acquainted with the original caritas. This text, so he is fond of explaining, is generally taken to mean that he who practices charity thereby covers in the sight of God a multitude of his sins.

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EPIGRAMS; WIT & humor; CHARITIES; LOVE; SINS; CONDUCT of life
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