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22. as God--has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ
(Ps 69:26).
That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's
affliction
(Zec 1:15).
satisfied with my flesh--It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh
literally
(Job 19:20),
but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically
(Ps 27:2);
that is, utter the worst calumnies, as the phrase often means in
Arabic.
JFB.
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