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She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. Sea. S. Jerom explains this of New Tyre; Marsham of the Old. To reconcile the different texts, we only need to suppose that both cities were connected by a road thrown up in the sea by Hiram, and repaired by Nabuchodonosor with great labour, (Calmet. 29:18) after it had been destroyed by the inhabitants of New Tyre, when they saw the old city on the continent fall a prey. Saint Jerome Calmet.
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