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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Deuteronomy 28:37

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee, &c.--The annals of almost every nation, for eighteen hundred years, afford abundant proofs that this has been, as it still is, the case--the very name of Jew being a universally recognized term for extreme degradation and wretchedness.
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