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“There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.”
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Verse 21. Because. Greek “And now thou art comely in thy appearance, and good in thy discourse. If then thou perform what thou hast spoken, thy God shall,” and so forth Bible.—It is hardly probable that he spoke in earnest. Perhaps he did not know that the true God allowed of no other. Being captivated with Judith’s beauty, and perceiving that she was attached to religion, he had a mind to remove all her objections to his person. Calmet.
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