In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
The sacred Evangelist adds, to show the greatness of the mourning, that even the dead Rachel was roused to mourn her sons; and “would not be comforted because they were not.”