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It will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
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Verse 8. Strangers. Idols. The people were not so prone to worship them. Yet the Jews were almost constantly subject to foreigners ( Calmet.) despectissima pars servientium, Macedonibus invalidis … sibi ipsis reges imposuere. Tacit. Hist. 5.—Christ granted a more perfect liberty to the faithful. John 8:33. Calmet.
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