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For while they thought that they were unseen in their secret sins, they were divided from one another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness, stricken with terrible awe, and very troubled by apparitions.
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Verse 3. Sins. This interior darkness was punished with the exterior one. Calmet.—Forgetfulness. Of each other, being concerned only for themselves, ( Bible.) or they seemed to be forgotten by Providence, or buried in Lethean, most dismal obscurity. The interpreter thus mentions Cocytus, without sanctioning poetical fables. Job 21:33. Menochius.—Exceeding. Greek, “spectres.” Calmet.
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