Zechariah 5:9

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Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Women. They often represent nations; and here the Jews understand the Medes and Greeks, who punished the Chaldeans. St. Jerome rather thinks that the Assyrians and Chaldeans are meant, carrying away Israel and Juda. Yet the former supposition seems preferable, as the woman in the vessel signified the wickedness of Babylon. Kite. Moderns have, "stork: "the true sense is uncertain. (Calmet) The Jews became blind and hardened on account of their avarice and perjuries. (Worthington)

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