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For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
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Verse 15. Strangers. We have nothing but what we have received from thee; and for how short a time! Calmet.—No stay. Hebrew “none abiding, ( Bible. or) no hope” of being able to escape death, ( Calmet.) when we must leave all. How happy, therefore, are those who sent their treasures before them! Bible.—All are pilgrims, with respect to heaven. Hebrews 13. Worthington.
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