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Footnotes

^[765] This explanation appears altogether fanciful and unwarranted.

^[767] So the Septuagint. The English authorized version appears accurately to express the idea intended to be conveyed: “Thy life shall hang in doubt before Thee.”

^[768] The idea is that God is not in doubt, as a man, as to His conduct, nor is He liable to change His mind, or to be influenced by threats or in any other way.

^[769] Minas patitur.

^[770] Zech. xii. 10.

^[771] Ps. xxii. 16-18. [Compare vol. i. p. 176, note 4, this series.]

^[772] 1 Kings ix. 6-9, with some additions and omissions; and 1 Chron. vii. 19-22.

^[773] Ex omnibus. The English authorized version has, “out of my sight.”

^[774] In perditionem et improperium.

^[775] This is not taken from the passages cited, nor from the Old Testament.

Chap. XIX.—Of the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus; And the Predictions of These Events.

^[776] i.e., from noon. [Elucidation IV.]

^[777] Amos viii. 9, 10.

^[778] Jer. xv. 9.

^[779] Confusa est et maledicta.