Rome Devours the Nations

Pesher Habakkuk to Habakkuk 1:6–17; 2:20

2nd Century BCE or 1st Century CE

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1and they will advance over the plain, to destroy and pillage the cities of the country. 2For this is what he has said: To take possession of dwellings not theirs. It is dreadful3and terrible; his judgment and his exaltation arise from himself (Habakkuk 1:6–7). 4Its interpretation…
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