1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Deuteronomy 28:54 | The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom, | Delicate, (luxuriosus,) abandoned to his pleasures. Josephus (Jewish Wars 6:11,) seems to have had this passage in view, when he informs us, that parents and children snatched from each other's mouths the wretched food, with which they endeavoured to support themselves. (Calmet) |