1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Amos 5:27 | And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name. | Damascus, or Babylon, (Acts vii.) into Mesopotamia, etc. The sense is the same. (Calmet) --- When the apostles quote passages, "they do not consider the words but the sense." (St. Jerome) --- One Greek copy, however, has Damascus in the Acts. (Haydock) |