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Job 30:1

Job 30:1

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

this was verified in Christ his antitype, whom Judas, with a multitude of men, with swords and staves, even with a band of soldiers, came to apprehend in the garden; and when Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and people of Israel, were gathered against him to do what God had determined should be done, Mt 26:46.

hprxb "cum opprobrio", Beza, Vatablus, Drusius; so Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens; "with reproaches", Broughton. Nwalmty "impleverunt sese", De Dieu. Vid.

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