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Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Verse 2. Many. This shews the great number. All shall rise again. In a figurative sense, the Jews who seemed buried shall appear and fight.—To see. Hebrew “everlasting.” Calmet.—S. Jerom has not seen a d ( Bible.) in the word. This text is express for eternal happiness or misery. Calmet.—Some have understood, deraon, “stench,” or contempt, to denote the ignominy of the damned; but the prophet speaks of the times of the Machabees. Houbigant.—All shall rise in their bodies, but all shall not be changed for the better. 1 Corinthians 15:51. Worthington.
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