Verse 38
38. World… not worthy Though treated as not worthy of the world, yet, truly, the world was not worthy of them. It was because they were too good for it that they were driven out of it. Judea abounds in wild coverts for refugees. Obadiah hid fifty prophets in a cave, 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 18:13. Mattathias and his sons took refuge in the mountains, 1Ma 2:28 . Josephus, in his Antiquities, says of the father of the line of Maccabees: “Having said these things, he rushed off with the children into the desert, leaving all his property in the village; the same thing the others doing, with their children and wives, fled into the desert and abode in the caves.”
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