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Psalms 48:9

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We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

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Verse 9. And shall labour for ever, and so forth This seems to be a continuation of the foregoing sentence; as much as to say, no man can by any price or ransom, prolong his life, that so he may still continue to labour here, and live to the end of the world. Others understand it of the eternal sorrows, and dying life of hell, which his the dreadful consequence of dying in sin. Challoner.—The just, on the contrary, who have laboured for eternity, shall see the death of the wicked, or of the wise of this world. Euseb. and so forth—It may also be a prediction of Christ’s life of sufferings and future glory, (Bossuet) or express the sentiments of infidels, who deny a Providence; because both good and bad perish alike. Eccle. 3:18. Saint Augustine—Hebrew “he rests for ever,” (Saint Jerome) or “shall he be undisturbed?” Calmet.—Both those who disbelieve a future state, and those who live as if they did, shall suffer. Worthington.—This verse is included within a parenthesis by Prot. (For the redemption … is precious, and it, and so forth) Bible.

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