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“This again you do: you cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
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Verse 13. With tears; that is by occasion of your wives, whom you have put away, and who came to weep and lament before the altar. Challoner.—Though divorces were tolerated, (Matthew 19:6) the more virtuous did not approve of them, particularly when a wife is put away who had been married in youth. See verse 10. Perhaps this corruption had crept in, like others, ( Calmet.) owing to the people’s commerce with strangers. Diod. in Photius.
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