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For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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Verse 6. Israel. This enhances the crime. Can a people so highly favoured adore the work of an artist?—Webs, such as appear on a fine day in autumn. S. Jerom’s master suggested that this was the sense. Interpreters vary. Calmet.—Septuagint and Th. “is delusive.” Sym. and so forth “instable;” shebabim. Bible.—Some erroneously read v instead of i. “The Lord casts off the calves of heretics, … and wonders that people should prefer heretical filth before the cleanliness of the Church.” Saint Jerome
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