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They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
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Verse 5. Proposition. Hebrew “riddle.” Bert.—The ancients delighted in parables, which required attention to discern the meaning, and thus people had the pleasures of ingenuity. Music often accompanied their precepts. Strabo i. 12. Calmet.—Utile dulci. Bible.—The psalmist intimates, that he had attended the best masters, ( Calmet.) even the Holy Ghost. Saint John Chrysostom—He delivers the instructions which he had received from God, on the instrument of ten strings, to imply that we must keep the ten commandments. Worthington.—He listens if the instrument be in tune. Calmet.
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