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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 2Kgs 6:5
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
2Kgs 6:5 · Douay-Rheims
“And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the axe fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.”
On this verse:
“it was borrowed--literally, "begged." The scholar's distress arose from the consideration that it had been presented to him; and that, owing to his poverty, he could not procure another.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.