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to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even the necessary appetite; but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack, might even partake of delicacies.
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Verse 3. They indeed desiring food, and so forth He means the Egyptians; who were restrained even from that food which was necessary, by the frogs and the flies that were sent amongst them, and spoiled all their meats. Challoner.—Exodus 8:3. Calmet.—These. The Israelites. Challoner.—New meat. Quails. Menochius.
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