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Jeremiah 31:3

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Jerome

Far off the Lord appeared to me (or to him): and in everlasting love I loved you: therefore I have drawn you with mercy. Because Israel had offended the Lord, and had said: We have no king but Caesar (John 19:15). And: Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours (Mark 12:7); and had strayed far from God: therefore the Lord appeared to him after a long time, not in the time of Zerubbabel and Ezra, after they had been taken captive again, but in everlasting love He loved him, which will never be destroyed. …

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