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29 lines
721 B
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# Your gold and your silver have become tarnished
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"Your gold and silver will become tarnished"
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# have become tarnished ... their rust
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"are ruined ... their ruined condition"
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# their rust will be a witness against you. It
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"and when God judges you, your ruined treasures will be like someone who accuses you in court. Their corrosion"
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# will consume ... like fire
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Here the corrosion is spoken of as if it were a fire that will burn up their owners.
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# your flesh
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Here "flesh" stands for the physical body.
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# fire
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The idea of fire here is meant to lead people to remember that fire often stands for God's punishment that will come on all the wicked.
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# for the last days
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"for when God is about to judge you"
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