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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Lamentations 1:8

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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(Kg1 8:46). is removed--as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. So Lam 1:17; Lev 12:2; Lev 15:19, &c. her nakedness--They have treated her as contumeliously as courtesans from whom their clothes are stripped. turneth backward--as modest women do from shame, that is, she is cast down from all hope of restoration [CALVIN].
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