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It will happen in that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
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Verse 8. Living waters; that is the gospel of Christ. Challoner.—Last: Mediterranean. Bible.—The prophet now turns to the figurative Jerusalem. The earthly city was not well supplied with water. Calmet.—It was in the most dry and barren part of the country. Saint Jerome in Is. xlix.—As much as the Mediterranean excels the Dead Sea, so much do the Gentiles surpass the Jewish converts in numbers. See Calmet. 13:1. Calmet.—The true faith is Catholic in all places, and at all times. Worthington.
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