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The sons also of Agar who seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding—none of these have known the way of wisdom or remembered her paths.
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Verse 23. Agar, the mother of the Ismaelites. Challoner.—Merrha, probably in Arabia.—Fables. This may be a reproach, or a commendation. Those nations delighted in enigmatical and sententious discourses. 3 Kennicott. 10:1. Calmet.—Instructors of mankind deserve praise, not those who devise false gods for lucre. Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. vi. 5. and so forth Worthington.
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