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but judging them little by little you gave them a chance to repent, not being ignorant that their nature by birth was evil, their wickedness inborn, and that their manner of thought would never be changed.
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Verse 10. Natural. We are all by nature children of wrath. Ephesians 2:3. Bible.—But the Chanaanites were accursed by Noe, (Genesis 9:25) and were brought up in wickedness (Psalms 57:4) by their parents. Saint Augustine de Bapt. ii. 8.—Changed. Because they would not employ well the time allowed them. Calmet.—By custom, malice became as it were natural, after nature was corrupted. Worthington.
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