| Zephaniah 1:9
| And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.
| Entereth the temple, as if to shew themselves, Amos 6:1. Hebrew, "jumpeth over," etc., denoting the Philistines. (Chaldean) (1 Kings 5:5.) (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will take vengeance on all openly before the gate in that day," (Haydock) on all who have cast themselves out of the Church. (St. Jerome) --- Lord. Hebrew, of their masters with," etc. This may relate to the Philistines, (Calmet) or to those who made the house of God a place of traffic, (Matthew 21:13.) and offered victims unjustly acquired. (Haydock)
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