OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 18:4

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When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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Verse 4. Broken. So Providence ordered it. Saint Jerome—How should this idea humble man! Calmet.—A potter may mould afresh the clay as long as it is soft, but God can change the hardest heart. Worthington.

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