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In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows bread with the other.

Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera

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Cf. Jesus, : "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"

Variants

And so he thinks to ‘tice me like a dog, by holding bread in one hand, and a stone, ready to knock my brains out, in the other.

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