Deuteronomy 32:21

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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Vanities. Septuagint, "idols. "(Haydock) Nation. The Gentiles were of this description, when they were called to the true faith. This excited the indignation of the Jews, as they would neither enter heaven themselves, nor suffer others to obtain that happiness, Romans i. 19. (Theodoret, q. 41.) "An association bound together by law, constitutes a nation. A multitude which has no laws, or bad ones, is unworthy of the name. "(Grotius) The Jews looked upon all others with sovereign contempt. (Calmet) Now, in their turn, they are despised. (Worthington)

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