36
“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the LORD, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
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Verse 36. Ever. Like the Chanaanites and Ephraim during the captivity. Isaiah 7:8. God restored the latter. Yet they are again dispersed from above 17 centuries, so that this perpetuity, which shall equal the world’s duration, belongs to the Church. Calmet.—Israel remains, not in the incredulous Jews, but in those who with the apostles embraced and propagated the faith of Christ. Saint Jerome Worthington.
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