Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Ah. He makes the same exclamation as Jeremias, i. 6. Hebrew aha. Theodotion, "Oh! "Septuagint and Symmachus, "by no means. "(Haydock)
God forbid. Excrements make a person legally unclean, Deuteronomy xxiii. 12. (Calmet)