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Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Thoughts, or fine projects of living happy a long time. (Calmet)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
46. The Holy Church of the Elect sees that the spaces of her life pass in periods of day and night, in that it is hers in adversity to have ‘a night,’ and in prosperity, ‘a day.’ For there riseth as it were light unto her from the tranquillity of peace, and night from the grief of persecution. Now as often as after the pauses of rest she returns to the toilsomeness of persecution, growing to a head against her, she testifies that her ‘days have past;’ in which days, however, she is accustomed to be weighed down with so much the heavier cares, in proportion as she bethinks her that for that very tranquillity of rest a more exact reckoning is required of her by the Judge. For in the tranquil state of peace, at one time she is employed with the profits of souls, at another time she attends to the ministrations of earthly things, which same ministrations of earthly affairs are more burthensome to the minds of good men, in proportion as by the act of looking at them they are torn away t...

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

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