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Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”
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Verse 12. Them. Antiochus and the Romans laid waste the country; ( Calmet.) and Adrian would not allow the Jews to come near Jerusalem. Saint Jerome Eus. iv. 6.—The people were not indeed removed together, as they had been. But all this is verified only in the Church, which in the midst of persecutions always subsists. Theodoret thinks these promises were conditional with respect to the Jews.
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