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that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
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Verse 6. Name. Their ignorance was of course culpable. Bert.—This prayer is prophetical, (Saint Augustine) or insinuates that those infidels were still more deserving of punishment. Bert.—By destroying Israel, the number of God’s worshippers would be lessened. Calmet.—Yet this consideration would not hinder God from chastising them; and it is not absolutely true that pagans are always more guilty. Those who know the will of their master, and do it not, shall suffer many stripes. Having the true faith, they may, however, ( Bible.) be sooner converted. Worthington.
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