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But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Soit! je ne vous ai point été à charge; mais, en homme astucieux, je vous ai pris par ruse!

KJV

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    cially mortal, has no place in perfect men. Yet a certain guile is to be found in them, according to 2 Cor. 12:16, "Being crafty I caught you by guile." Therefore guile is not always a sin. Objection 2: Further, guile seems to pertain chiefly to the tongue, according to Ps. 5:11,…

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