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He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.
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Verse 37. God. He laughed at religion, yet sometimes offered splendid presents and victims, which shewed his inconstancy. Calmet.—Women. He kept many concubines, (Diod.) and committed the greatest obscenities publicly: mimis et scortis. Saint Jerome—Hebrew may have quite a different sense. He had no regard for the sex, ( Calmet.) killing all indiscriminately. Grot.
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