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Ecclesiastes 1:6

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6

The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

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Verse 6. Spirit. The sun, (Saint Jerome) which is like the soul of the world, and which some have falsely asserted to be animated; or rather ( Calmet.) the wind is meant, as one rises in different parts of the world when another falls. Pliny ii. 27. Menochius.

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