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All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
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Verse 4. Away. These strong expressions denote great misery. Calmet. 13. Joel 2:10. Ezekiel 32:27. Calmet.—Book. Hebrew “roll.” Bible.—Some thence foolishly inferred that the destiny of every one might be read in the heavens. Huet. Eus. præp. vi. 11. Philoo. xxiii. Pic. Astrol. viii. 5.—The prophet only means that the heavens shall be devoid of beauty, ( Calmet.) and covered with darkness. Bible.
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