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“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
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Verse 5. Horses. If thou hast been terrified at the threats of thy fellow-citizens, how wilt thou withstand those of Jerusalem? ( Menochius.) or he speaks to Juda, who would not be able to resist the Chaldees, since the Philistines, and so forth had routed the Jews, though destitute of cavalry.—Jordan, or the nations of Ammon, and so forth on that side. Calmet.—Prot. “if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt,” and so forth Bible.
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