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Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all who dwell in the west?”
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Verse 4. East. Greek “west,” which seems more accurate, unless Holofernes was on the sea-coast, ( Calmet.) or that part of the country went by this name, as it does at present. Bible.—He was not absolutely unacquainted with the Jews, but spoke in contempt, (verse 27. Worthington. Menochius.) and wished to know if they had formed a league with the Egyptians, and so forth Calmet.
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