THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on First Book of Kings (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

21:5 The vessels: i.e., the bodies, have been holy, that is, have been kept from impurity.--Ibid. Is defiled. . .Is liable to expose us to dangers of uncleanness.--Ibid. Be sanctified, etc. . .That is, we shall take care, notwithstanding these dangerous circumstances, to keep our vessels holy, that is, to keep our bodies from every thing that may defile us.

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