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I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.”
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Verse 21. Which must be supplied in Hebrew. The Idumeans had been spared for a long time. But they shall not escape. Chal. and so forth Calmet.—The rites of the law could not purify, as the sacraments of Christ do. Saint Jerome—God will cleanse his people, and will chastise the Ammonites, and so forth who had injured them. Septuagint “I will seek (or avenge) their blood, and will not pronounce innocent;” αθωωσω. Bible.—Sion, in heaven, ( Menochius.) and in the tabernacles of the Catholic Church, from the beginning of the world unto eternity. Bible.
AMOS
THE PROPHECY OF AMOS
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