OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 8:26

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26

while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

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Verse 26. Poles. Hebrew “head or height of the dust of the world.” Bible.—I subsisted with the chaos, before things appeared in their present form. Calmet.—The poles denote the north and south, or the four quarters of the world. Menochius.

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