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Rom 9:29. Εἰ μὴ-ὡμοιώθημεν) Isa 1:9, LXX., καὶ εἰ μὴ ὡμοιώθημεν.-προείρηκεν, said before) Before the event, or before the prophecy quoted at Rom 9:28.-σαβαὼθ) In 1 Samuel and in Isaiah, σαβαὼθ is put for the Heb. word צבאת; in all the other books it is translated παντοκράτωρ, Ruler over all. From this circumstance there is strong ground for conjecturing, that one or perhaps several persons were employed to translate those two books, and that different persons translated the rest. And in the same first book of Sam. Scripture beings to give this title to God, although others had been formerly used as it were in its place.-Exo 34:23.-σπέρμα, a seed) There is denoted 1) a small number at the present time, 2) the propagation of a multitude after deliverance from captivity.-ὡς Σόδομα, as Sodom) where not a single citizen escaped; no seed was left.