The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Palm-tree. Septuagint phoinix, means also a "Phoenician, or the Phoenix "bird, of which the ancients have said so much, Job xxix. 18., (Calmet) and of which Tertullian, (de Res. xiii.) and St. Ambrose, (de fid. Res.) seem to understand this passage. (Amama)
But it must be explained in the sense of the Vulgate, as the Hebrew Tamar evinceth. This tree, and the cedar, were the most famous in those countries; the former for its fruit, and the latter for buildings and duration. The palm-tree will shoot forth again, after it has been cut down or burnt, (Pliny, xiii. 14.) so the just will rise up from oppression. (Calmet)
