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Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
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Verse 3. Third. In a short time the Lord will easily set us free. But the prophet refers more directly to the resurrection of the faithful, and of Christ. Ephesians 2:5 and 1 Corinthians 15:4. Calmet.—Saint Paul mentions the third day according to the Scriptures, which nowhere else so clearly specify it. Worthington. See Saint Jerome S. Cyp. Sanct. 9.—Know. Hitherto we have been reproached with voluntary ignorance in adoring idols. Calmet. 4:6. We will amend.—His, Christ’s.—Rain. It falls only in autumn and in spring. Deuteronomy 11:14. Calmet.
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