286. * death, and with the devil's gang, has been made known to me by long experience, lasting many months, by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah. "To bless Jehovah" is to have faith in Him, etc. etc.
6042. [Judg. 5:] verse 11. "Of them that drive the flocks between the watering places," are those who send the flocks to the pastures and to the waters, and protect them, lest they be fallen upon by wolves; thus they are the chief priests and leaders. Another translation* has "bowmen" instead of "them that drive the flocks between the watering places." One word is used having several meanings that are enclosed together within it. It is a characteristic of heavenly speech that the most carefully chosen words * That is, Castellio: "disserite de sagittariorum inter aquaria strepitu:" "discuss the sound of the bowmen between the watering places."
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