Judith — Chapter 14
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Verse 4
Achior an Ammonite being truly converted and beleeuing in God, was admitted into the Church, notwithstanding that Ammonites and Moabites were excluded by the law Deut. 23, 3. which is therfore ment only of those persisting in their error.
Verse 16
his head is not vpon him.17. Which when the Princes of the power of the Affyrians had heard , they al rene their garments , & intolerable feare and dread fel vpon them , and their minds were troubled excce- dingly. 18, And there was made an incomparable cric in the middcs of their campe,