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Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
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Verse 11. Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did S. Stephen, and so forth Our Saviour rescued the adulteress from such a situation, as Daniel had done Susanna. Yet this text may regard poor debtors. Psalms 71:4. Calmet.—Christian bishops used all their influence to preserve the lives of those who did not deserve death. Saint Ambrose in Psalms 118. Ser. viii. Off. i. 36. and ep. xxv. and xxvi.
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