OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 46:2

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They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.

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Verse 2. They. Lit. “their soul.” Bible.—The pagans must have supposed they had one. Calmet.—Captivity. “There are as many triumphs over the gods as over men.” Tert.—The former shared the fate of their adorers. Their statues were plundered.

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