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The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
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Verse 8. Lion. This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers, and their success in their spiritual enterprises. Challoner.—The Jews, by leave of Assuerus, defended themselves; and the Machabees became terrible. Esther 9 and 1 Maccabees 3:4. The power of the latter was established, while the efforts of Eupator and of other Syrian persecutors for sixty years, down to Zebina, proved fruitless or destructive to themselves. Calmet.
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