Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners out of it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Desolate. This was effected in the course of many centuries. (Calmet)
The building of Seleucia caused Babylon to be deserted. (Pliny, vi. 27.)
Hence we know not at present where it was situated.
For there will be none to stand by, none to rescue, nowhere the face of Christ, so mild and calm. But as those who work in the mines are delivered over to certain cruel people and see none of their friends but those only that are set over them, so will it be then also: or rather not so, but even far more grievous. - "Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew 43.5"
