| I Samuel 2:31
| Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
| Arm, strength or children. I will slay some; others I will reduce to extreme want. Some explain it of the ark, which was the protection of Israel. (Calmet) --- Old man, to govern. (Du Hamel) --- It is often a title of dignity. But the four succeeding pontiffs did not live long. In the course of little more than 100 years, the last was deposed. (Calmet)
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