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Cyrus. See App-57.
loose the loins. Idiom for weakening. Compare Job_12:21. The opposite of "girding" (Isa_45:5).
open before him the two leaved gates: i.e. of Babylon, as described by Herodotus.
not be shut. They were found open, and Gobryas and the soldiers of Cyrus entered Babylon without fighting.