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Matthew 11:16

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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

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Verse 16. Is like to children, and so forth This similitude signifies that there was nothing necessary for their salvation, which God had not abundantly provided for; but they had pertinaciously continued in their incredulity. To explain this, he uses a similitude taken from morose children, whom nothing can please; he appears to refer to some custom of that time with which we are little acquainted. Menochius.

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