OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 14:21

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And this became an ambush, because men, in bondage either to calamity or to tyranny, invested stones and stocks with the Name that shouldn’t be shared.

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Verse 21. Name. It cannot with propriety be given to any but God. Worthington.—The Jews explain this of the name Jehovah, which they will never pronounce. Calmet.

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