OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 2:32

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It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.

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Verse 32. Call. Amid these fears, those who trust in the Lord shall have nothing to suffer. Cambyses could not execute his designs. But the prophet here alludes still more to the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts 2:21. Romans 10:13. Some returned from Babylon, as a figure of this great event. Only a few Jews embraced the faith. Calmet.—Salvation. Septuagint “shall be saved, as the Lord hath spoken, and the person preaching the gospel, whom the Lord hath called.” Bible.

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