Hosea 2:18

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And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will abolish the bow and the sword and the battle from the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Beasts. The most savage nations shall receive the gospel, and become mild, Isaias xi. 6. (Theodoret) Wild beasts shall not infest the land, Leviticus xxvi. 22. (Calmet)

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Therefore in a way similar to those of old who took harlots for wives, even so God too espoused to himself the nature that had played the harlot. This the prophets from the beginning declare to have taken place with respect to the synagogue. But that spouse was ungrateful toward him who had been a husband to her, whereas the church, when once delivered from the evils received from our fathers, continued to embrace the Bridegroom.

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