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and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same fountains, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;
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and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.
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Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.
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For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other.
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For a like ardour for what is right and honourable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.