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Likewise also their gods of wood overlaid with gold and with silver are like a white thorn in an orchard that every bird sits upon. They are also like a dead body that is thrown out into the dark.
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Verse 71. Scarlet. Greek “marble” coloured wood. Grotius would substitute μαργαρου, “a pearl,” which decays through age. Calmet.—Greek also, “From the purple, which also shines upon them rotting, you shall,” and so forth Μαρμαρου means, “of marble or shining.”
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