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When King Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made to him, he sent away all his troops, each man to his own place, except the foreign troops, which he had raised from the islands of the Gentiles. So all the troops of his fathers hated him.
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Verse 38. Nations, particularly Crete. This most pernicious counsel was probably given by Lasthenes. Calmet.—All people dislike foreigners to be trusted more than natural born subjects. Bible.
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