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The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
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Verse 13. Exile, the banished Absalom, ( Bible.) who, in similar circumstances, has only committed a crime like that which the king is willing to pardon at the entreaty of a poor widow; though all the people of God seem interested for the welfare of Absalom, whom they look upon as the heir apparent. This was the drift of the whole parable. Calmet.—To sin, may be referred to Absalom, who might be driven by despair to worship idols. Menochius.
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