5 Oftentimes also fair speech of those, that are put in trust to manage their friends’ affairs, hath caused many that are in authority to be partakers of innocent blood, and hath enwrapped them in remediless calamities: (KJV) 6 Beguiling with the falsehood and deceit of their lewd disposition the innocency and goodness of princes. (KJV) 7 Now ye may see this, as we have declared, not so much by ancient histories, as ye may, if ye search what hath been wickedly done of late through the pestilent behaviour of them that are unworthily placed in authority. (KJV)
Greek Esther 16:5–7
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