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Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.