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Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
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Verse 30. Zara. “Orient, or rising;” in whose hand the red ribband denoted, that the blood of Christ is the source of all our merits and happiness. These two brothers were a type of the vocation of the Gentiles, and of the reprobation of the Jews, who lost the privileges to which they thought themselves entitled. Saint Irenaeus iv. 42. Saint John Chrysostom and so forth Calmet.—Phares was the ancestor of Jesus Christ. S. Matthew 1:3.
Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness”.
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