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Wisdom 18:3

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Therefore you provided a burning pillar of fire, to be a guide for your people’s unknown journey, and a harmless sun for their glorious exile.

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Verse 3. Therefore. “Instead of those things,” (Gr.) darkness and complaints, ( Bible.) God led away his people in triumph. Habakkuk 3:3.—A harmless sun. A light that should not hurt or molest them; but that should be an agreeable guest to them; ( Challoner.) or the desert should receive them, where they should be provided with food. Menochius.

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