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For in the case of the other nations, the Sovereign Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have attained to the full measure of their sins; but not with us,
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Verse 14. Sins. God seems at present to take no notice of the crimes of the Gentiles, or he exterminates them at once, as he did the Chanaanites, Sodom, and so forth But the Jews he corrects for their amendment and trial. The sages of paganism never inculcated such excellent maxims.
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