Jeremiah 1:1 Douay-Rheims

The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.

George Leo Haydock

1774–1849 Catholic

Helcias, the high priest who discovered the book of the law, (Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i., &c.) though this be uncertain. — Anathoth, a village to the north of Jerusalem, to which many priests had retired, though it did not belong to them. (Calmet)

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1849 · Jeremias 1:1

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