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Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
I was. Chaldean, Theodoret, and St. Chrysostom have "not. "But chastisement produced a salutary effect upon the ten tribes, Osee vi. 1., and xiv. 3. Convert. Bring me back from captivity and from my evil ways. This must be attributed to grace. (Calmet) We cannot repent without it. (St. Jerome) Da quod jubes. (St. Augustine, Confessions x. 19, 31, and 37.) God's grace is the principal cause of justification. Man's co-operation is the secondary cause. (Worthington)
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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