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Psalms 115:7

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They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

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Verse 7. or Hebrew Psalm 116. Verse 16. Handmaid. To be blessed, we must be in a state of grace, and children of the Church. Worthington.—Out of it, death itself endured for Christ would profit nothing, (Saint Augustine) but only be “a punishment of perfidy.” S. Cyp.—No worship can please God, unless we be joined in communion with her, as the Fathers observe. Bert.—The psalmist glories in being a servant of God for ever. Calmet.—Bonds. Of slavery, ( Calmet.) and sin. Worthington. 1 Corinthians 7:22.

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