Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
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Jerome
AD 420
Just as the moth consumes clothing and decay or dryrot consumes wooden things (which both occur over a long time), in the same manner God, giving a place of penitence over a long time to the ten tribes and then afterward to the two tribes—summoning to salvation those who treasure for themselves wrath for the day of wrath—becomes like a moth or rot.
