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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 6
Baruch 6
Seventy years. Grotius conjectures that it was originally seven decades.
A statue. M Lit. " As one to be led to death." The text has not a second comparison.
G. o/ mj, "the artificers." u The artificers have left after them idols falsely called gods, and ignominy, the shame of a foolish superstition.
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