OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 81:8

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“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

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Verse 8. Nations. Those whom thou hast appointed judges, prevaricate. Genesis 18:25. Calmet.—Come, therefore, thyself, Lord Jesus, (Revelation 22:20) to whom all nations were promised for an inheritance. Bert. Psalms 2:7.—His appearance at the last day is described in the 49th psalm; and most of the Fathers here discover a clear prediction of the conversion of the Gentiles. Calmet.

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