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Zechariah 10:11

And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Sea. The Jews pretend that the Bosphorus' straits were dried up, to afford them a passage. (St. Jerome) But they must produce some stronger text to prove such a miracle. No obstacles shall be able to retard God's people, Isaias xi. 16. Assyria. After Epiphanes, the kingdom subsisted only about seventy years. Egypt. The Ptolemies excluded the natural princes, who have never regained the throne. They who had so often disturbed the Jews, were deprived of their power over them by the Syrians, and never could prevail there again after the Machabees. (Calmet) When the faithful are confirmed in their religion, the enemy cannot hurt them. (Worthington)

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