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As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
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Verse 16. Troubled. Hebrew “in haste to be a pastor after thee.” Chal. “I delay not, at thy command, to announce thy truths to them.” Calmet. 1:6. Jeremias was aware of the dangers attending his office, yet not dismayed.—Day: approbation, (1 Corinthians 4:3) or advantages of the world. Calmet.—Of man. Hebrew also, “of the wretched:” anush. I wished rather for the people’s welfare, ( Bible.) and sought not their ruin. Chal. Theodor.
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