OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 20:4

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for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

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Verse 4. God. All must be done in his name, by the direction of his ministers. The Jews pretend that the ark was carried in the midst of the army. But this does not seem to have been generally the case. Calmet.—Of you. “We must co-operate, being assisted” by God, as Saint Augustine (q. 30,) observes, in our spiritual conflicts. D.

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