OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 2:43

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43

Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.

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Verse 43. Man. Pompey and Cæsar, Anthony and Augustus, married each other’s relations; but they soon quarrelled, and the race of the Cæsars was extinct in Nero. But this is better understood of the kings of Syria and of Egypt. Calmet.

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