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Tell the land of Israel, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
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Verse 3. Just. But had not God declared the contrary, Calmet. 18? The time was not yet arrived; or, he rescued the just from death, though he permitted them to experience the other common miseries. Calmet.—He preserved them from eternal death. E.—The just often means those who are so only in appearance. Calmet. 16:51. Calmet.—Temporal afflictions fall upon all; but the just derive benefit from them, while the wicked fall into eternal misery. Saint Jerome Worthington.
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