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“‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
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Verse 44. Daughter. They too commonly ( Calmet.) follow bad parents. Juv. vi. 239. and xiv. 25.—Jerusalem is more wicked than the Cethite, ( Bible.) her mother, verse 3. Calmet.—Even this nation had once received the principles of the true religion for the patriarchs, but cast them off to embrace idolatry, and to destroy her children. Bible.—Jerusalem was formerly and is till wicked. Worthington.
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