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Verse 22

Genesis 14:22. I have lift up mine hand, &c.— i.e.. I have sworn: a solemn act of religion usually accustomed with lifting up the hand, as it were, in appeal to God. Accordingly, lifting up the hand and swearing are put the one for the other, Exo 6:8 compared with Deuteronomy 32:40. Psalms 63:4. The same ceremony was used by the heathens. Virgil says, that Latinus tendit ad sidera dextram, lifted up his hand to heaven, &c. AEn. XII. 196.

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