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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Jer 8:8
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Jer 8:8 · Douay-Rheims
“How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.”
On this verse:
“law . . . with us-- (Rom 2:17). Possessing the law, on which they prided themselves, the Jews might have become the wisest of nations; but by their neglecting its precepts, the law became given "in vain," as far as they were concerned. scribes--copyists. "In vain" copies were multiplied. MAURER translates, "The false pen of the scribes hath converted it [the law] into a lie." See Margin, which agrees with Vulgate.”
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