OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 81:7

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You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

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Verse 7. Men. Hebrew Adam, or “like a man” (Mont. Bible.) of the meanest rank.—Princes. Among men, ( Calmet.) or like Lucifer, the first of the rebel angels. Euseb. S. Just. dial.—Most tyrants come to a miserable end. Menochius.—At death, judges themselves are brought to the bar, and their case is then more terrible, as the mighty in guilt shall suffer more. Wisd. 6. Worthington.—They are forced to taste od death; while Jesus Christ was master of it. John 10:17. 28. This comparison evinces Christ’s divinity. But Socinians blind themselves by looking at the sun, and attempting to fathom all by the weak light of reason. Bert.

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