OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 26:11

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You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

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Verse 11. Feast. The Jews could not yet be required with propriety to raise themselves to delights purely spiritual. Calmet. 12:7. Strabo (x.) observes, that the Greeks and barbarians accompanied their sacrifices with feasting and music, which served to take off their thoughts from worldly concerns, and gave them a sort of foretaste of the divinity. Calmet.

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