OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 44:13

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13

The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.

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Verse 13. Man. To be styled afterwards a god. Calmet.—Maluit esse deum. Hor. i. ser. 8.

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