the sword, the famine, and the pestilence. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev_26:25, Lev_26:26. Deu_28:21-24). App-92.
the famine. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and famine", thus completing the Figure of speech Polysyndeton.