OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 31:37

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The LORD says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says the LORD.

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Verse 37. Out, experimentally, and not by philosophical hypotheses, which were little known in the days of Jeremias. Calmet.—Septuagint “if it be made lower.” Bible.—This is impossible; so it is that I should abandon Israel. Theodor.—All was not faithless. Calmet.—The Israel of God embraced the gospel. Bible.

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