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and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
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Verse 4. Walls. This must be understood of the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church of Christ. Challoner.—According to Saint Augustine (in Ps. lxxi.) when the literal sense cannot be verified, we must have recourse to the thing prefigured; and thus what is here written, must be explained of the Church rather than of Jerusalem. Worthington.—A little before the fall of the latter, it was become so populous that the houses which had been built without the walls were enclosed. Jos. Bel. vi. 6.—this multitude was a sort of pledge or figure of the crowds which should embrace the gospel.
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