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‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”
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Verse 41. Ye despisers [2] of the favours offered you, behold, wonder, and so forth This citation is out of Habacuc, (chapter 1:5) according to the Septuagint The prophet, by these words, foretold to the Jews in his time the evils that would come upon them in their captivity in Chaldea, but Saint Paul here applies them at least to the miseries that the incredulous Jews would incur, if they obstinately refused to believe in Christ. Witham.
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