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and say, ‘The Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
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Verse 3. Cethite, or “Hethite.” These two were probably the most abandoned of Chanaan. Daniel (13:56) give the infamous judges the like appellation; and Isaias (1:10) calls the Jews princes of Sodom. Calmet.—So Dido says to Eneas:
Nec te diva parens, generis nec Dardanus auctor
Perfide sed duris genuit te cautibus, and so forth Æn. iv. Bible.
—But we nowhere find such a vehement and continued reprimand. The prophet seems to quit his proper character to make ( Calmet.) the abominations of the people known and detested. Calmet. 3:8. Bible.
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