{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But whence do they receive this, except from Him of whom\r\nit is here immediately said, \"Giving the vow to him that\r\nvoweth?\" Otherwise they would be of those mighty ones\r\nwhose bow is weakened. \"Giving,\" she saith, \"the vow to\r\nhim that voweth.\" For no one could vow anything acceptable\r\nto God, unless he received from Him that which he\r\nmight vow. There follows, \"And He hath blessed the years\r\nof the just,\" to wit, that he may live for ever with Him to\r\nwhom it is said, \"And Thy years shall have no end.\" For\r\nthere the years abide; but here they pass away, yea, they\r\nperish: for before they come they are not, and when they\r\nshall have come they shall not be, because they bring their<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_176\">[Pg 176]</a></span>\r\nown end with them. 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