And say, Thus says the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cethite, or "Hethite. "These two were probably the most abandoned of Chanaan. Daniel (xiii. 56.) gives the infamous judges the like appellation; and Isaias (i. 10.) calls the Jews princes of Sodom. (Calmet)
So Dido says to Eneas: Nec te diva parens, generis nec Dardanus auctor Perfide sed duris genuit te cautibus (Virgil, Æneid iv.) (Haydock)
But we nowhere find such a vehement and continued reprimand. The prophet seems to quit his proper character to make (Calmet) the abominations of the people known and detested, chap. iii. 8. (Haydock)
