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For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
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Verse 22. Forsake him. Apostates are treated with the greatest severity. Menochius.—Esdras thought that the glory of God was at stake, and he would not shew any diffidence in Providence, or scandalize the infidels. Calmet.—We ought not to ask princes for what we should despise. D.
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