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to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’
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Verse 12. Midst. Lit. “navel.” Hebrew “Thabor,” intimating a mountain rising in a plain. Judges 9:7. Calmet.—Alluding to this intended blunder of the Jews lately returned, he speaks of Antichrist and of all heretics, who seek to pervert or suppress Catholics rescued from the power of the devil, by the sacraments of Christ. Worthington.
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