OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 2:8

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One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defenses and don’t break ranks.

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Verse 8. Brother. S. Jerom saw a cloud of them in Judea. They were not “a finger-nail’s breadth from each other.” Calmet.—The Arabs discover the military art in them. Bochart.—They invested France ( A. 874) with all the skill of an army, the chiefs marking out the place for the camp the night before. Sigebert.—Windows. They eat the wood, ( Bible.) and the windows were simple lattices or curtains. Calmet.—Hebrew “they fall upon the sword, and shall not be hurt.” Septuagint “consumed or filled.” Bible.—They are never satisfied. Theod.

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