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It's a name that was given to Jesus by medieval rabbis who wanted to actually pronounce a malediction, a curse, on Him.— Israel Matzav
God's Angry Man is neither an expos� nor a malediction, and [Dr Gene] Scott is never branded a crackpot - which is not only the easiest road [Werner]— GreenCine Daily
But death upon the cross was a death of malediction, as we read Deut. 21:23: "He is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree."— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Wherefore the saint punished him with the sentence of his malediction, and foretold that not one of his seed should reign after him, but that his kingdom should be transferred to Kerellus, his younger brother.— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

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