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“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name,
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Verse 44. Name. It was the practice of the religious Jews, to pray with their eyes turned towards the holy place, verse 48. The primitive Christians looked towards the east, in prayer, to remind them of the ascension of our Saviour, ( Calmet.) from Mount Olivet, in that quarter. Bible. Psalms 67:34. S. Just. q. 118. Tert. apol. xvi. S. Epip. hær. xix. Calmet.
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