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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Ezekiel 16:44

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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As . . . mother . . . her daughter--"Is," and "so is," are not in the original; the ellipsis gives the proverb (but two words in the Hebrew) epigrammatic brevity. Jerusalem proved herself a true daughter of the Hittite mother in sin (Eze 16:3).
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