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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 42
Psalms 42
This seems to regard a heathen nation that oppressed the Israelites. It may refer to the Baby- lonians.
The two terms of the text signify joy, and are used to express it more fully. The second term is, however, understood of youth by the Syriac and Arabic interpreters, as well as by the Septuagint, St • Jerome takes both terms in the same sense: '^IceUUcb et exultationis."
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