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Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. Compared. Hebrew “he is like dumb, or perishable beasts.” Bible.—So much is man degraded by his attachment to riches and pleasures. Theod. Calmet.—Some explain this of Adam, (Saint John Chrysostom) reduced to the necessity of labouring, and dying, like brutes. verse 21. Eccle. 3:18. Calmet.—This is a very serious reflection, to think that man should so far neglect the gifts of reason, as to strive for temporal advantages only, like irrational creatures. Worthington.
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