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Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers’?
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 12. Nurse. We often read of men nursing or watching over others. 4 Kennicott. 10:5. Esther 2:11. Thus kings shall nurse the Church. Isaiah 49:23. Calmet.—All who have authority should treat their subjects with love. Menochius.
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