Their offspring shall you destroy from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
11. "Their fruit shalt Thou destroy out of the earth." Their fruit, because it is earthly, shalt Thou destroy out of the earth. "And their seed from the sons of men" (ver. 10). And their works; or, whomsoever they have seduced, Thou shalt not reckon among the sons of men, whom Thou hast called into the everlasting inheritance.
Fruit of the womb, or all their possessions. The family of Herod was presently extirpated. (Berthier)
The works of the wicked must burn. (St. Augustine)
The severity shown to the Ammonites was perhaps without example, ver. 10. (Calmet)
But this will be more fully verified in the judgment of the wicked, whose schemes against Christ and his Church will fail. (Worthington)
