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Louis Segond 1910
O vous qui changez le droit en absinthe, Et qui foulez à terre la justice!
KJV
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 194 (Migne)
ita facis? IV. Hinc est illud in Isaia: «Vae qui convertitis [Col. 0012A] judicium in absinthium (Amos V, 7) .» Et in Apocalypsi «nomen stellae quae de coelo cecidit, dicitur absinthium (Apoc. VIII, 11) .» Quia enim succus absinthii sumptus extorquet vomitum, recte absinthio j…
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