OLD TESTAMENT

Nahum 1:9

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What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

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Verse 9. Affliction. Septuagint add, “for the same thing, or together.” Bible.—:Many hence infer, that those who have been slain by God, like the Sodomites, and so forth will not be condemned to hell. Orig. i. Ezec. Saint Jerome S. Th. 3. p. q. 59. a. 5.—But this principle cannot be always correct. Calmet.—Their temporal suffering might usher in eternal ones. Saint Gregory Mor. xviii. 12.—Ninive shall perish; so that a second blow will not be requisite. 1 Kennicott. 26:8. Drus. Calmet.

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