1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Daniel 1:4 | Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and such as might stand in the king's palace, that he might teach them the learning, and the tongue of the Chaldeans. | Blemish. Deformed people were excluded the throne, or the king's presence. (Procop. 1.) --- Science; well educated, or apt to learn. They were first to be taught the Chaldean letters, which then differed from the Hebrew. (Calmet) |