And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, not even be accorded the honor which the other godless nations enjoyed, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war, the burial with weapons being one of the ways in which soldiers fallen in battle were distinguished, and they have laid their swords under their heads, the survivors honoring their heroes in this manner; but their iniquity shall be upon their bones, namely, by their being obliged to bear the consequences of their guilt, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living, so that even those who excelled by virtue of their fierceness were not excluded from the Lord's punishment, for all human accomplishments and excellencies cannot redeem from His wrath.

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