Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will do her right, lest at the last she come and [a]make me weary.

And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge saith.

Now shall not God avenge his elect, which cry day and night unto him, yea, though [b]he suffer long for them?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 18:5 Word for word, beat me down with her blows, and it is a metaphor taken of wrestlers, who beat their adversaries with their fists or clubs: so do they that are importunate beat the judge’s ears with their crying out, even as it were with blows.
  2. Luke 18:7 Though he seems slow in revenging the injury done to his.

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