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Wisdom 3:6

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He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering.

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Verse 6. Holocaust. The sufferings ( Menochius.) which they have voluntarily endured, cause them to be pleasing to God. Bible. Zechariah 13:9.—Time of judgment, or of death. Calmet.—Septuagint “at the time of their visitation, they shall shine, and,” &chapter 5:7. Matthew 13:43. Bible. Zechariah 12:6.

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