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He said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Cubits, alluding to Judea, which was twice as long as it was broad. Menochius.—Many explain this vision and that of the woman, (verse 7) of the Jews, ( Calmet.) after S. Jerom. Bible.—But is seems rather to denote the Chaldeans, whose sentence had been long pronounced, and who were punished by the Persians, and by the Greeks, as by two women. If we understand the Jews, their iniquity was chastised by the Assyrians and Chaldeans. Calmet.
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
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