“But is this the only place we read of "substance"? Has it not also been said in another passage: "The gates of the cities are broken down, the mountains are fallen, and his substance is revealed"? What, does the word mean something created here also? Some, I know, are accustomed to say that the substance is substance…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Exposition of the Christian Faith 3.14.115-16
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6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
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4The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
5He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
— Nahum 2:6 —
7And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
8But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.