OLD TESTAMENT

Job 3:15

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or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

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Verse 15. Houses, while alive; ( Calmet.) or their tombs were thus enriched with silver, ( Menochius.) as this practice was not uncommon, verse 22. Joseph. xiii. 15.—Marcian forbade it. Saint John Chrysostom complains it subsisted in his time. Orat. Annæ. Calmet.

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