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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Psalms 58:8

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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a snail: Shabbelool, in Chaldee tivlala, the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic balla, to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction. pass: Psa 37:35, Psa 37:36; Mat 24:35; Jam 1:10 untimely: Job 3:16; Ecc 6:3 Psalms 58:9
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