OLD TESTAMENT

Malachi 3:16

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Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name.

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Verse 16. Then. Grabe changes ταυτα, these things, into τοτε, then. The Septuagint make the pious express the former sentiments. Bible.—David, Jeremias, and so forth had experienced such anxiety. Psalms 72:2. Calmet.—According to the Hebrew and so forth the just hearing such blasphemies, doubt not but God will mark them in the book ( Bible.) of his justice, and punish them.

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