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Jeremiah 26:5

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Jerome

And listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, rising up early and sending them, and you have not listened. But if it sufficed to walk once in the law, which was given to us by Moses, as a foolish sect suspects, how did he add: 'That you may hear the words of my servants the prophets.' Who, indeed, were sent after the law, and not once, but frequently: not leisurely and without care, but always and with concern. …

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