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George Leo Haydock, on Ps 11:7
George Leo Haydock · 1774–1849
Ps 11:7 · Douay-Rheims
“The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth refined seven times.”
On this verse:
“Pure words, very different from those of the deceitful, ver. 3. (Calmet) — Earth, dross, or in the crucible, or “for the ruler of earth:” (Pagnin; Haydock) current money. If we alter the Hebrew a little, it may be, “with care, ( bahalil, which is never elsewhere used for a crucible) gold refined seven times;” often, (Proverbs xxiv. 16.) or as much as possible. (Calmet)”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.