| Malachi 1:4
| But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.
| Down, by the Machabees, who forced the people to receive circumcision, 1 Machabees 5:3. (Calmet) --- At that time the Jews were more pious, and glorified God. (Haydock) --- Ever. God's gratuitous love appears in his leaving Edom in captivity, and restoring the Jews. (Worthington)
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