OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 11:4

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Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,

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Verse 4. I will enter, by means of a good angel, (Wisd. 18:14. Saint John Chrysostom) or by evil angels. Psalms 77:49. Saint Augustine ibid. Calmet.—Moses spoke this on the morning of the 14th Nisan; and that same night, after the paschal lamb had been eaten, the dreadful carnage commenced. Menochius.

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