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evidence that pagan Rome is represented by the masculine gender in verse
11 is the very fact that the gender reverts back to feminine verbal forms
representing papal Rome in verse 12. Verse 12 in its entirety is an
unmistakable allusion to the action of papal Rome opposing the “daily”
in which it cast truth to the ground, it worked, and it prospered (all
feminine verbal subjects in Hebrew). Exegesis of verse 12 will be
developed in a later section.
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Self-Consistent Gender Summary |