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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Deuteronomy 9:17

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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I took the two tables, . . . and broke them before your eyes--not in the heat of intemperate passion, but in righteous indignation, from zeal to vindicate the unsullied honor of God, and by the suggestion of His Spirit to intimate that the covenant had been broken, and the people excluded from the divine favor.
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