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These were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.
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Verse 10. A watcher. A vigilant angel, perhaps the guardian of Israel. Challoner.—Chal. hir; ( Bible.) whence Iris the messenger of the gods, is derived. Saint Jerome—Theodot. retains eir. See Saint Jerome in Ps. lxxvi. 4. The Scholiast (Rom. ed.) says: “the Septuagint renders it an angel, the rest a watcher.” These supernatural agents Bible. and saints are represented as judges. verse 14. Calmet.
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