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Isaiah 40:20

He that is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto him a skillful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not move.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Wood. Hebrew hamsuccan, (Haydock) which Septuagint, Chaldean, and St. Jerome explain of a sort of wood used for idols. Moderns take it to be "a rich "or rather "a poor man. He who is mean in his offering, chooses wood that "(Calmet) (Protestants)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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