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Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
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Verse 3. Back. Hebrew “labourers have laboured on my neck,” (Saint Jerome) or “back.” They have made me bear the yoke, or have ploughed up my back. This proverbial expression shews the cruelty of the Babylonians, ( Calmet.) and of the enemies of Christ, (Isaiah 50:6) and the martyrs. Theod.—Hebrew charash, means also to work like a blacksmith. Genesis 4:22. Bert.—The Church bears patiently all crosses. Sinners build on her, or even on God’s back, when they go on in their wicked ways, presuming that they will be saved at last by the sacraments, and so forth Worthington.
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