Susanna 52-54
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
52 When they were separated from each other, he summoned one of them and said to him, ‘You old relic of wicked days, your sins have now come home, which you have committed in the past, 53 pronouncing unjust judgements, condemning the innocent and acquitting the guilty, though the Lord said, “You shall not put an innocent and righteous person to death.” 54 Now then, if you really saw this woman, tell me this: Under what tree did you see them being intimate with each other?’ He answered, ‘Under a mastic tree.’[a]
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- Susanna 1:54 The Greek words for mastic tree and cut are similar, thus forming an ironic wordplay
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