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1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Isaiah 4:1 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1)It was threatened (Isa. 3:25) that the mighty men should fall by the sword in war , and it was threatened as a punishment to the women that affected gaiety and a loose sort of conversation. Now here we have the effect and consequence of that great slaughter of men, 1. That though Providence has so wisely ordered that, communibus annis—on an average of years , there is nearly an equal number of mal...
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