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He pursues the same subject, but he seems more clearly to explain what he had briefly stated in the preceding verse, when he says that all joy …

The joy of our heart is ceased
inward joy was gone, as well as the external signs of it: it "sabbatized" F25

Is anyone afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they do not complain of evils…
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John Calvin
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