TO HALT, to be lame on both sides. With this Elijah reproaches the Israelites of the ten Tribes: they did not adore God with a pure and unmixt worship, but were for reconciling the worship of him with that of idols. God says, he will assemble her that halteth, and her that is driven out. Congregabo claudicantem & eam quam ejeceram: I will take again this spouse, who is infirm, deformed, and divorced, and will give her a numerous posterity. He speaks of the Jews dispersed, and, as it were, abandoned by God. See the same expression in Zephan. iii. 9. The Psalmist says, That his enemies rejoiced to see him halt: In claudicatione meâ lætati sunt. The Vulgate reads, Et adversùm me lætati sunt. And Jeremiah; All my familiars watched for my halting. Omnis homo pacis meæ observavit claudicationem meam. The Vulgate reads, Pacifici mei observantes latus meum.
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