1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Numbers 14:34 | According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: *a year shall be counted for a day. **And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge: Ezechiel 4:6.; Psalm 94:10. | Revenge. Hebrew, "my breach of promise, or if my threats be vain," etc. Septuagint, "you shall know the fury of my anger." (Calmet) --- I will convince you by the severity with which I shall execute this sentence, that you had no reason to distrust my former promises. St. Jerome (in Ezec. xx.) entertains hopes of the eternal salvation of many of these Hebrews, who had time to do penance for their sins. |