The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
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The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
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The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
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The men of blood hate him that is sincere; and as for the upright, they seek his life.
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- John 15:18-19 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- 1 John 3:12-13 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous. Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
- Genesis 4:5-8 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.” Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
- 1 Samuel 20:31-33 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!” Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
- 1 Samuel 22:11-23 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king. Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.” Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?” Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house? Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.” The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.” The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests. David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house. Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”
- 1 Samuel 15:11 “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
- 1 Kings 21:20 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- 1 Kings 22:8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
- 2 Chronicles 18:7 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
- Jeremiah 13:15-17 Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken. Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness. But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
- Jeremiah 40:14-16 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe them. Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”
- Mark 6:18-19 For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
- Mark 6:24-27 She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.” She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.” The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her. Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
- Luke 23:34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
- John 5:34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
- Acts 7:60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
- Romans 10:1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
- Jeremiah 18:20 Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the…
Pro 29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Ver. 10. The bloodthirsty hate the upright.] As Cain did Abel for his goodness, {1Jn 3:12} and as many bloody villains still, who bear about, and, so far as they dare, make use of Cain’s club to knock on the head God’s righteous Abels. All hatred is bloody, but especially the habit of hatred. No sight pleased Hannibal better than a ditch running over with man’s blood. Nothing would satisfy Farnesius, the Pope’s champion, but to ride his horse up to the skirts in the blood of the Lutherans. Charles IX of France, author of the Parisian Massacre, looking upon the dead carcase of the admiral, that stank by being long kept unburied, uttered this most stinking speech: Quam suaviter olet cadaver inimiei! - How sweet is the smell of an enemy’s carcase! And the queen mother of Scotland, beholding the dead bodies of her Protestant subjects, whom she had slain in battle, said that she never saw a finer piece of tapestry in all her life.
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But the just seek his soul.] In a good sense; {as Psa 142:4} seek the salvation of it - as Christ did of his deadliest enemies; as Paul did of his countrymen the Jews, of whom five times he received forty stripes save one; {2Co 11:24} as the disciples did of those spiteful Pharisees, that had causelessly accused them; {Mat 15:2; Mat 15:12} as that martyr Master Saunders did. ‘My lord,’ said he to Bishop Bonner, ‘you seek my blood, and you shall have it. I pray God you may be so baptized in it that you may hereafter loathe bloodsucking, and so become a better man.’ {a} And another time, when Steven Gardiner, being prettily nipped and touched by the same Saunders, said, ‘Carry away this frenzy fool to prison’; he answered, that ‘he did give God thanks, which had given him at the last a place of rest and quietness, where he might pray for the bishop’s conversion.’ ‘If ye will not hear me speak for myself,’ said another martyr, ‘then send me to my prison again among my toads and frogs, which will not interrupt me, while I pray to God for you.’ {b}
{a} Acts and Mon., fol. 1358.
{b} Ibid.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Hate the upright, and consequently seek their ruin, as…
Hate the upright, and consequently seek their ruin, as is implied from the following clause.
Seek his soul; either,
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1. To require his soul or life at the hands of those who have taken it away. Or,
2. To preserve it from those who attempt to take it away, as this phrase is taken, Psa 142:4, though commonly it signify to seek to destroy it.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain Note, 1. Bad men hate their best friends: The…
Note, 1. Bad men hate their best friends: The blood-thirsty, all the seed of the old serpent, who was a murderer from the beginning, all that inherit his enmity against the seed of the woman, hate the upright; they seek the ruin of good men because they condemn the wicked world and witness against it. Christ told his disciples that they should be hated of all men. Bloody men do especially hate upright magistrates, who would restrain and reform them, and put the laws in execution against them, and so really do them a kindness. 2. Good men love their worst enemies: The just, whom the bloody men hate, seek their soul, pray for their conversion, and would gladly do any thing for their salvation. This Christ taught us. Father, forgive them. The just seek his soul, that is, the soul of the upright, whom the bloody hate (so it is commonly understood), seek to protect it from violence, and save it from, or avenge it at, the hands of the blood-thirsty.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The bloodthirsty hate the upright,.... Cain did Abel; and…
The bloodthirsty hate the upright,.... Cain did Abel; and as the wicked world hate all good men, and persecute them, even unto death;
but the just must seek his soul; either the soul of the bloodthirsty, and that either the good of their souls; seek their spiritual welfare, and pray for it, even though they are so cruel and inhuman: or just magistrates will seek after such persons, to punish them for shedding the blood of the upright. Or else the meaning is, that just persons seek the soul of the upright, and make inquisition for the blood of such, to punish for it; which comes to the same sense, as Aben Ezra observes: or rather, such seek to defend and preserve the soul or life of upright men from those that hate and persecute them. Jarchi illustrates it by Sa1 22:23; the Targum is,
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"men that shed blood hate integrity; but the upright seek it.''
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Seek - To preserve it.
Seek - To preserve it.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Pro 29:10. The blood-thirsty hate the upright — And…
Pro 29:10. The blood-thirsty hate the upright — And consequently seek their ruin, as may be inferred from the following clause; but the just seek his soul — To preserve it. Schultens renders this verse, Bloody men hate the upright, and seek the life of the just.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Seek his soul - i. e., “Care for, watch…
Seek his soul - i. e., “Care for, watch over, his life” (compare Psa 142:4).
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Charles Bridges 1846 · Public Domain This bloody hatred is the fulfillment of the first…
This bloody hatred is the fulfillment of the first prophecy from the mouth of God. (Gen 3:15 .) The first history of the fallen world puts the seal to the prophecy — "Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." (Gen 4:5-8 .) Ever since has the same testimony been given.†1 "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?" (was the indignant remonstrance of Stephen to his countrymen) until they "filled up the measure of their fathers," by being "the betrayers and murderers" of the Son of God.†2 The noble army of martyrs stand before us. Such intensity of malice in the contrivance of the variety of their torture! The bloodthirsty hate the upright. (Heb 11:36-37 .) Their innocency was the only ground of hatred; and, on the threatened apprehension of any outbreak of evil, the swelling cry of the bloodthirsty multitude was — ’The Christians to the lions!’ The next picture downward in the annals of the Church is not less illustrative — "I saw the woman" — awful sight! — "drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." (Rev 17:6 .) We cannot doubt but the fierce elements of the cruelty still lie in slumbering concealment. Nothing but the Gospel can kill the principle. Everything short of this only chains down the violence. In a softer mold it still retains all its substance and power, and waits only for the removal of present restraints to develop the same bloodthirsty hatred as ever.
Scripture explains this murderous vindictiveness. "Wherefore slew Cain his brother? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous." (1Jn 3:12-13 .) Darkness cannot endure the light.†3 The condemning light†4 of godliness excites the enmity of the ungodly. They cannot bear the picture. Thus the bloodthirsty Ahab hated his upright prophets,†5 and the Jews the holy Savior.†6 Conformity to him is the great offense still. ’Such precise fools, contrary to every one beside, "turning the world upside down" — how can they be endured?’ Their removal is a rejoicing riddance from the earth. (Rev 11:9-10.)
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And yet their God is not unmindful of their threatening troubles. The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. Saul sought to murder David; Jonathan covered him.†7 Jezebel was thirsting to destroy the prophets of the LORD; Obadiah "hid them in a cave, and fed them with bread and water."†8 The enemies of Jeremiah plotted against him; Ebedmelech saved his life.†9 Herod was proceeding against Peter’s life; the Church shielded him with their prayers.†10 The bloodthirsty Jews bound themselves to murder Paul; "Pricilla and Aquila" were ready to "lay down their own necks for his life."†11
What a life of conflict is this world of sin! Need we be dissuaded from loving it? Need we not rather patience to endure it? But while we are in it, let us be found decidedly on the Lord’s side,†12 "partakers," if needs be, "of the afflictions of the gospel." (2Ti 1:8 .) Never let us stand aloof from our brethren’s cause. (2Ti 1:16, 17.) To help them, is to be fellow-workers with God himself. If union is so effective against the Church, surely its influence would not be of less moment on the Church’s side; "strengthening her stakes," establishing her foundations, and enlarging her usefulness.
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†1 Pro 29:27. Psa 37:12-14, Psa 37:32 . Gal 4:29 . 2Ti 3:12 .
†2 Act 7:52. Mat 5:12 ; Mat 23:32 .
†3 Joh 3:19-20.
†4 Heb 11:7.
†5 1Ki 21:20 ; 1Ki 22:8 .
†6 Joh 7:7.
†7 1Sa 18:11, 1Sa 18:25, with 1Ki 18:1-4 .
†8 1Ki 18:1-4 .
†9 Jer 38:1-13.
†10 Act 12:5.
†11 Act 23:12. Rom 16:4 .
†12 Mat 12:30.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Soul. they wish to protect the upright, Psalm cxli.…
Soul. they wish to protect the upright, Psalm cxli. 5.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain bloodthirsty--(Compare Margin), murderers (Psa 5:6; Psa 26:9).
bloodthirsty--(Compare Margin), murderers (Psa 5:6; Psa 26:9).
hate, &c.-- (Pro 1:11; Gen 3:4).
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seek . . . soul--that is, to preserve it.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. The bloodthirsty — Literally, men of blood.
10. The bloodthirsty — Literally, men of blood.
Hate the upright — The perfect man, the man of integrity; or, they hate integrity itself.
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Seek his soul — Or, his life. The phrase is ambiguous. To “seek life” is, ordinarily, to desire to destroy it. This, according to Gesenius, is the only place where the phrase is used in a good sense — to seek to preserve life. But some understand it, as seeking to avenge the life — requiring the life of the murderer, according to law.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. seek] i.e. care for, as R.V. marg. Comp.…
10. seek] i.e. care for, as R.V. marg. Comp. Psa_142:4 [Hebrews 5], where however the Hebrew word, seek, is not the same as here. It is more in accordance with the use of the phrase to seek the life, to render, with R.V. text,
The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect:
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And as for the upright they seek his life.
The LXX. however has: οἱ δὲ εὐθεῖς εὐθεῖς ἐκζητήσουσι ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ; and the Vulg. justi autem quærunt animam ejus.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) The bloodthirsty hate the upright.—Or, perfect man. “for…
(10) The bloodthirsty hate the upright.—Or, perfect man. “for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness” (2Co_6:14); the life of the perfect man is a continual reproach to them.
But the just (or upright) seek his soul—i.e. care for the life of the perfect; their uprightness shows itself in active help-giving.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The bloodthirsty hate the upright; him that is perfect,…
The bloodthirsty hate the upright; him that is perfect, Revised Version; osion , Septuagint. His life is a tacit reproach to men of blood, robbers, murderers, and such like sinners, as is finely expressed in the Book of Wisdom RAPC Wis 2:12, etc. (comp. 2Co_6:14) But the just seek his soul. The explanation of this hemistich is doubtful. The following interpretations have been offered:
(1) The just seek the soul of the upright to deliver him from death temporal and spiritual. (comp. Pro_12:6 Psa_142:4)
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(2) The just seek the murderer"s life, take vengeance on him. (comp. Psa_63:9, Psa_63:10)
(3) "As for the just, they (the murderers) attempt his life," where the change of subject, though by no means unparalleled, is awkward. (comp. Psa_37:14) The second explanation makes the righteous the executioners of vengeance on the delinquents, which does not seem to be the idea intended, and there is no confirmation of it in our book. The interpretation first given has against it the fact that the phrase, "to seek the soul," is used of attempts against the life, not of preserving it. But this is not fatal; and the above seems to be the most likely explanation offered, and gives a good antithesis. Men of blood hate a virtuous man, and try to destroy him; the righteous love him, and do their utmost to defend and keep him safe. If this interpretation is rejected, the third explanation is allowable, the casus pendens just, they seek his life may be compared with Gen_26:15 Deu_2:23. Septuagint, "But the upright will seek (ekzhthsousi ) his life."
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Pro_29:10. Delitzsch translates this verse:—“Men of blood hate the…
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Pro_29:10. Delitzsch translates this verse:—“Men of blood hate the guiltless and the upright; they seek his soul.”
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Pro_29:11. His mind. Rather his wrath. Keepeth it till afterward. Rather restraineth it, keeps it in the background.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pro_29:10
SOUL-SEEKERS AND SOUL-HATERS
I. A proof of the unnatural condition of the human family. When we look at a human body we see that every limb and organism belonging to it ministers to the well-being of the whole frame, and thus to the comfort of the living soul that inhabits it. This we recognise to be a natural and fitting state of things—just what we should have expected to find before experience. If in any human body we at any time see the hand inflicting injury upon the head, or any one member causing discomfort to another, we conclude, and with reason, that some disturbance of the natural condition has taken place—that there is physical disease in some bodily organism, or moral disease in the spirit that animates the body. So our human instincts and our reason force us to the conclusion that the natural relation of the members of the great body of humanity is one in which “each for all and all for each” should be the rule of action. That it is not so, can but strike all thinking men and women as a terrible incongruity. That most men not merely regard their human brethren with indifference, but that many actually hate and seek to injure their fellow-creatures is surely an evidence that some fatal moral distemper has laid hold of the race. And the evidence becomes stronger when we consider the truth of the first assertion in the proverb—that not only do bloodthirsty men seek to injure other men in general, but that the objects of their especial malignity are the upright—those who have given them no provocation, but whose desire and aim is to bless their human brothers and sisters.
II. An example in renewed men of what human brotherhood ought to be. Notwithstanding the great amount of self-seeking and enmity that is found in the world, there always has been found a small minority who have been seekers of the good of others, and in whom love to their human brethren has been the keynote of existence. And this love has been felt, and this seeking has been active, in behalf of those who hated them, and sought to do them ill. All such members of the human family are doing their part towards restoring men to the condition of peace and goodwill in which their Creator intended them to live, and help us to form some idea of what earth would have been if sin had never entered it. It is true they would then have had no opportunity of loving their enemies, and of doing good to those who hate them, but the love which “seeketh not her own” would have found free scope for her activities in going out towards those animated by the same spirit of love and would never have had to sorrow over efforts to seek and save that have been apparently fruitless. All just men who are seekers of the well-being of others, and especially those who seek the good of their enemies, are followers of that Just One who was hated by the bloodthirsty of His day, and who sought their souls while they sought His life. The history of the martyr Church in all ages has been the history of the “bloodthirsty hating the upright,” and of the just treading in the footsteps of their Divine Master, and “seeking the souls” of their persecutors.
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
These words may mean—and probably do mean—that the upright, in opposition to the blood-thirsty by whom the just is hated, “seek his soul,”—that is, the soul or life of the object of the hatred—of the just or the upright. Of the Lord Himself it is said—“He loveth the righteous.” And in this all His people resemble Him. It is one of their characteristic distinctions. They pray for the upright, and endeavour, by all means in their power, to preserve them from the deadly machinations of their persecutors. The amount of love required of God’s people towards God’s people is that they be ready to “lay down their lives for the brethren.” And if “for the brethren”—how much more for THE JUST ONE. Wardlaw.
The just seek his soul. As Paul did of his countrymen the Jews, of whom five times he received forty stripes save one (2Co_11:24); as the disciples did of those spiteful Pharisees that had causelessly accused them (Mat_15:2-12); as that martyr Master Saunders did: “My lord,” said he to Bishop Bonner, “you seek my blood, and you shall have it. I pray God you may be so baptized in it as hereafter you may loathe blood-sucking, and so become a better man.”—Trapp.
On the subject of Pro_29:11 see on chap. Pro_10:19-21, page 168.
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