Francis Patrick Kenrick

The term rendered " swords," by a slight change of punctuation may mean " desolation." The Syriac interpreter agrees with the Septuagint, to which the Vulgate is conformable. Six manuscripts in the collection of De Rossi, and seven printed Bibles, present the same reading, according to which, the swords of the enemy entirely failed to achieve victory. P. "0 thou enemy I destructions are come to a perpetual end, and thou hast destroyed cities." This translation is rejected by Olshausen, the learned German critic, as not conformable to the context. The text may be understood of the complete over- throw of the enemy : according to St. Jerome ; " The desolation of the enemy is complete."