And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
So. He makes the application of the second answer given, ver. 14. All your victims have hitherto been contaminated. I redressed not your miseries. But now, as you have begun to work at my temple, I will remove the scourge. It is easy to apply the first answer, ver. 13. Your victims have purified you no more than holy flesh wrapped up in a garment would sanctify it, (Calmet) or other things which it does not immediately touch. (Haydock)
Your bad dispositions render them useless, Jeremias xi. 15. The victims were also bad, Malachi as i. 6. (Calmet)
