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As the courts are secured on every side upon him who offends the king, as being committed to suffer death, even so the priests secure their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers.
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Verse 18. Candles. Lit. “lamps.” Bible.—Some temples in Egypt were famous for their number. Herod. ii. 62.—The Lord prescribed them to be used. But who ever imagined that they stood in need of them to see, as the idolaters supposed their idols did?
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