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“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
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Verse 2. Coming. This may be explained of the Baptist, (Lu. 3:7) or of the second coming of Christ; though his first coming shewed the hypocrisy of the Jews. They would not acknowledge him, but sought his death, and brought on their own condemnation. Calmet.—Fuller’s. Septuagint “washers’ herb.” Borith is found in all the low places of Palestine, (Saint Jerome) and probably denotes soda, (Jeremiah 2:22. Calmet.) or fullers’ earth. Bible.—Christ purified the religion of the Jews, or did what was requisite for that purpose. The people would not obey. Yet he established his Church in all purity.
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