OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 5:27

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Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies.

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Verse 27. Damacus, or Babylon, (Acts 7) into Mesopotamia, and so forth The sense is the same. Calmet.—When the apostles quote passages, “they do not consider the words but the sense.” Saint Jerome—One Greek copy, however, has Damascus in the Acts. Bible.

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