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“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the LORD my God.
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Verse 18. I was. Chal. Theodoret, and Saint John Chrysostom have “not.” But chastisement produced a salutary effect upon the ten tribes. Osee 6:1 and 14:3.—Convert. Bring me back from captivity and from my evil ways. This must be attributed to grace. Calmet.—We cannot repent without it. Saint Jerome—Da quod jubes. Saint Augustine Conf. x. 19. and 31. and 37.—God’s grace is the principal cause of justification. Man’s co-operation is the secondary cause. Worthington.
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