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who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
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Verse 12. Truth. He is merciful, and always performs what he has promised: ( Menochius.) whereas sinners are noted for cruelty and deceit. Hebrew “the Lord God is a sun and shield.” Bible.—This sense is very good. But Theodotion agrees with the Septuagint who have read differently, unless they have substituted the thing signified for the figure. Bert.—Glory, in the next world, ( Worthington.) or even in this. He will restore us to happiness, and cause even our persecutors to esteem us. Calmet.—Donator est indulgentiæ, debitor coronæ … promittendo. Saint Augustine
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