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And this resemblance between the well-known habits of our wandering savages and those which T. ascribes to the rude tribes of Germany, may impress us with confidence in the truthfulness of his narrative. Vel armentorum vel frugum. Partitive gen. Supply aliquid. Vel vel==whether or, merely distinctive; aut aut==either or, adversative and exclusive. Cf. note, A. 17: aut aut. Pecuniam.
As to the exposition, 'of' here is probably casual, not partitive, as the Authorised Version has it; 'travail' is not to be understood in the sense of childbirth, but of toil and suffering; 'soul' is equivalent to life. This fruit of His soul's travail is further defined in the words which follow.
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