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Psalms 44:6

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For I will not trust in my bow, neither will my sword save me.

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Verse 6. Fall. This seems to be placed too soon, in order to shew the rapidity of the conquest. Calmet.—“Thy arrows are sharp, shot into the hearts,” and so forth Bible.—Some explain in corde, (as the Hebrew Septuagint and so forth read) of the voluntary submission of those who had formerly been enemies of the Messias. Saint John Chrysostom and so forth—“Thy sharp arrows, the people subject to thee, shall fall into,” and so forth—Men are sometimes represented as arrows. Isaiah 49:2. Bert.

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