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“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
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Verse 25. Sun. Cyrus had a Persian for his father, and a Mede for his mother; thus uniting both nations, ( Calmet.) so that he was styled a mule by an ancient oracle. Eus. præp. ix. 41.—These countries lay to the north-east of Judea. Calmet.
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