OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 7:10

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then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

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Verse 10. Because. Hebrew also, “although,” (Sa. Grot.) “to perform,” (Chal. Mont.) or “by doing.” God must surely approve of our conduct, since we are unmolested. Saint Thomas Aquinas Lyr.—But the Vulg. seems preferable, and the people attribute their success to idols. Calmet. 44:17 and 2 Chronicles 28:23.

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