So let all your enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when it goes forth in its might. And the land had rest forty years.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Rising. Hebrew, when he goeth forth in his might. "Let the just advance in virtue, and glory, as the sun becomes more beautiful and hot as he leaves the horizon, on a clear summer day. This comparison is often applied to the servants of God, Ecclesiasticus xvii. 16., 2 Kings xxiii. 5., and Matthew xiii. 45. (Calmet)
