OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 7:8

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Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

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Verse 8. Mixed, like oil and flour. Heb.—Ashes. Thin cakes ( Calmet.) of this kind are used by the poor, in Spain, (Sanct.) and by the Arabs. Thevenot. Levant. xxxii.—Turned. There was no time allowed by the enemy, who came and took the Israelites away. Calmet.—They became like other nations, and would not repent. Worthington.

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