OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 11:18

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The LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.

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Verse 18. Shewedst me. He insinuates that something more than what appears must be understood. Theod.—All Christians explain what follows of Jesus Christ, (Saint Jerome Worthington.) whom Jeremias prefigured in his sufferings. Calmet.—“Let us follow the rule which shews that all the prophets did most things for a type of our Lord and Saviour; and what was now done by Jeremias, foreshewed what would happen to our Lord.” Saint Jerome

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