Jerome

Do not trust in deceitful words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord is here. What the Seventy added to the beginning of this chapter: "In words of falsehood, which will not benefit you at all," is not found in the Hebrew. And at that time he commanded both the people of Judah and us who seem to be established in the Church, not to place our trust in the splendor of buildings, in gilded ceilings, and in walls adorned with marble crusts. …

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