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Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They both wept.
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Verse 9. The dog, and so forth This may seem a very minute circumstance to be recorded in sacred history; but, as we learn from our Saviour, (S. Matthew 5:18) there are iotas and tittles in the word of God, that is to say, things that appear minute, but which have indeed a deep mysterious meaning in them. Challoner.—V. Bede. Saint Jerome in Isai. lvi. 8. Saint Augustine con. Faust. xxii. 56. Worthington.—The other versions relate this event, verse 4.
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