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For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, kept close beneath their roofs, lay exiled from the eternal providence.
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Verse 2. Providence, and day-light, like incorrigible slaves, in prison. Calmet.—The Egyptians were three days in darkness, (Exodus 10:22) and the Gentiles continued without faith in God, till after Christ’s resurrection. Worthington.—Only few served him, before that glorious event.
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