And I will make your windows - The word rendered here ‘windows’ is rendered by Jerome propugnacula - ‘fortre es,’ bulwarks, ramparts; and by…

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

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And I will lay thy windows with pearls. By these metaphors he shows that the condition of the Church, as has been previously said, will be…

And I will make your windows of agates
Some sort of which stones, Pliny ^F24 says, were valued for their c…

Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, consider that God is speaking comfortingly to them through these words, taking notice of their gr…

1. Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.

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