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The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Circumcise. Septuagint “purify.” Chal. “take away the folly from.” After the captivity, idolatry was never very prevalent among the Jews. Bible.—But this prediction will not be fulfilled till the Jews acknowledge the Messias. Calmet.—Those whose hearts are circumcised, as God here promises, are enabled to love him above all things; and no doubt he will fulfil what he has thus engaged to do, with regard to some. Worthington. Saint Augustine q. 53.
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