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A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha was written by a variety of respected Anglican scholars and edited by Charles Gore, H. L. Goudge, and Alfred Guillaume. Created in the spirit of progressive criticism, this commentary posits conclusions that differ widely from the accepted views of the day. The scholars dedicated to this work believed that the Apocrypha was extremely...

By A. GUILLAUME The familiar words of Ps 137:7, ‘Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem: how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground,’ are the burden of this short prophecy. Its close affinities with Jer 49:7–22 have been referred to on p. 428a; and the conclusion there reached is that the resemblances are best explained by the supposition that an older prophecy is the source of both documents. This may well be so; but it is not a necessary assumption.
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