1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Wisdom 3:1

But *the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.

Deuteronomy 33:3.; Wisdom 5:4.

Of death, is not in Septuagint. During life the just are protected by God, (Luke 12:7.) and still more in death. This passage is very applicable to martyrs. (Calmet) --- Temporal death is to the just the road to happiness, where they shall not incur damnation, or the torment of death. Though the martyrs seem to be utterly destroyed, they pass to joys eternal and unspeakable. (Worthington)