Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd should get out of the lion’s mouth two legs, or the tip of the ear: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in a piece of a bed, and in the couch of Damascus.
Francis Patrick Kenrick
P. "An adversary there shall be even round about the land." The phrase la elliptical. The inva- sion of an enemy is predicted, who is to spread desolation. St. Jerome explains it of the Assyrian army. u " He borrows an example from what he had often seen, and states that the slight remains of the ten tribes shall be rescued from the hands of the Assyrians, as a shepherd rescues from the lion's Jaws two legs or the tip of the ear, the rest of the sheep being devoured." St Jerome. The shepherd was liable to be called on to make restitution of the lost sheep, unless he could show bow the animal had perished, by exhibiting at least some small piece of its remains. Kxod. 22 : 13.
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