I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Me. God answers the preceding prayer, and announces the rejection of the synagogue, alluding to the armies which prevailed in the days of the Machabees.
Not. St. Paul explains this of the conversion of the Gentiles, Romans x. 20. (Calmet)
It cannot regard the Jews, who are spoken of in the next verse. (Worthington)