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8:13
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. KJV
{In that day fair maidens shall fail, and young men in thirst,} Wycliffe's Bible
And in the day of this famine the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst; those who, one would think, could well enough have borne the toil, shall sink under it. The Jewish churches, and the masters of their synagogues, some take to be meant by the virgins and the young men; these shall lose the word of the Lord, and the benefit of divine revelation, and shall faint away for want of it, shall lose all their strength and beauty. Those that trust in their own merit and righteousness, and think they have no need of Christ, others take to be meant by the fair virgins and the choice young men; they shall faint for thirst, when those that hunger and thirst after the righteousness of Christ shall be abundantly satisfied and filled. The particular destruction of those that were ringleaders in idolatry, ...