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For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
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Verse 6. Jacob. Thus the converts address God, ( Bible.) or the prophet give the reasons of the subversion of the ten tribes.—Filled. Consecrated as priests.—Children. Imitating idolatrous nations, ( Calmet.) and marrying with them, ( Calmet. Septuagint Theod.) or even giving way to unnatural sins. Saint Jerome Menochius.—The Jews were not utterly cast off till they had put Christ to death. His Church shall never perish. Worthington.
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