OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 31:18

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“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”

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Verse 18. Famous king of Assyria, or of Egypt.—Pharao. Calmet.—

Mutato nomine de te

Fabula narratur. Hor. 1. Sat. 1.

—Though Egypt be like the most potent kingdoms, it shall likewise fall. Worthington.

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