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I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
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Verse 9. Not man. I am not actuated by the spirit of revenge, nor do I fear lest my enemy escape. Calmet.—I punish in order to reclaim, (Saint Jerome) and reserve eternal vengeance only for those who die impenitent.—Holy one. If there be a just man in Israel, I will spare the nation; (Genesis 18:32) or there are some just, like Tobias, and therefore a part shall be reserved; or, ( Calmet.) I am the just ( Bible.) God. Saint Jerome
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