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[59] St. Antony of Padua curiously gives vv.. 52, 56, as an example of
the "Zeal of prelates" (_Moral Concordance,_ Neale's edit., n.d., p.
105).
[60] In each case it is not clear from the text that the 'worship'
consisted in anything else than supplying food.
[61] The title ??…???±?????‚ is also used in Q in some of Isaiah's visions,
_e.g._ xvii. 1.
[62] _See_ under Theodoret in 'Early Christian Literature,' and
'Chronology,' p. 224.
[63] This has been attributed to Rabba bar Nachman of Pumbaditha, about
A.D. 300, but is probably later. _See_, however, Etheridge, _Jerus. and
Tiberias_, p. 143.
[64] Schrader, _Cuneiform Inscriptions of O.T._?? II. 125, considers Bel
not to enter explicitly into the second of these names, which he takes
to mean 'may his life protect'; but even in this case the mention of a
Deity is evidently understood. But _cf._ Dan. iv. 8. Gesenius and
Longfield (_Chaldee Grammar_, 1859, p. 115) take the older view. _See_
also Sayce's art. in Hastings' _D.B._ on _Merodach-Baladan_, where M.
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