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Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.
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Verse 17. Sword. Hebrew “dart.” Calmet.—The expression seems to be proverbial. So Ovid makes Canacea speak, “My right hand holds the pen, my left the sword;” ( Bible.) while I write, I am on the point of killing myself. Calmet.
Dextra tenet calamum, strictum tenet altera ferrum. Ep. Her.
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