1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Wisdom 3:6 As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.

Holocaust. The sufferings (Menochius) which they have voluntarily endured, cause them to be pleasing to God. (Haydock) (Zacharias 13:9.) --- Time of judgment, or of death. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "at the time of their visitation, they shall shine, and," etc., ver. 7., and Matthew 13:43. (Haydock) (Zacharias 12:6.)