OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 2:3

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A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

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Verse 3. Flame. They destroy all by their bite. Calmet. 1:12. Calmet. Theod.—Pleasure. Hebrew “Eden.” So luxuriant was Palestine.

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