OLD TESTAMENT

Judith 16:14

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Let all your creation serve you; for you spoke, and they were made. You sent out your spirit, and it built them. There is no one who can resist your voice.

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Verse 14. Damsels; young boys. Syr. “they run them through, as if they had been damsels.”—Children, or “slaves.” Syr. Being this overtaken, what could they do but sue for pardon? Calmet.—Before. Greek “of the Lord,” and so forth

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