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In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
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Verse 9. Entereth the temple, as if to shew themselves. Amos 6:1. Hebrew “jumpeth over,” and so forth denoting the Philistines. Chal. 1 Kennicott. 5:5. Calmet.—Septuagint “I will take vengeance on all openly before the gate in that day,” ( Bible.) on all who have cast themselves out of the Church. Saint Jerome—Lord. Hebrew “of their masters with,” and so forth This may relate to the Philistines, ( Calmet.) or to those who made the house of God a place of traffic, (Matthew 21:13) and offered victims unjustly acquired. Bible.
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