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Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new”? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
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Verse 10. New. Such vicissitudes have occurred before, though we must not infer that the world is eternal; or that there have been many others before this, as Origen would suppose. Prin. iii. 5. and so forth Calmet.—Men’s souls, which are created daily, are nevertheless of the same sort as Adam’s was; and creatures proceed from others of the same species, which have been from the beginning. Saint Thomas Aquinas p. 1. q. 73. Worthington.—Natural and moral things continue much the same. Menochius.
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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