The stranger that is among you shall rise up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lower. Hebrew repeats this word, to signify the utmost abjection. (Haydock)
The Fathers gather hence the glorious superiority to which the Christian Church is raised. (Origen, Rom. ii.) (Theodoret, q. 34.)