OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 16:51

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Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

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Verse 51. Justified, as they are comparatively innocent. Saint Augustine c. Faust. xxii. 61.—They had not the like advantages, (Matthew 11:23) nor the example of others’ punishment to open their eyes. Thou hast pleaded for or with them, and hast lost thy cause. Calmet.

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