Zechariah 9:13

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When I have bent Judah as my bow, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Juda: the Machabees. (St. Jerome) Filled, or stretched the bow of Ephraim. (Calmet) The people shall act with vigour and union. (Haydock) Sons; viz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual way, conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ. (Challoner) The Machabees repressed the insolence of the Seleucides, who were of Greek extraction.

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Richard Challoner

AD 1781

Thy sons, O Sion: Viz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual way, conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ.

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