Jeremiah 7:28

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Jeremiah 7:28 (WEB)
You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the LORD their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’

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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.3Festal Letters
“The unthankful departing far from these are rightly deprived of the joy springing therefrom: for ‘joy and gladness are taken from their mouth.’” — editor's note: Apparently a quotation from Scripture, perhaps from Jer. vii. the phraseology of v. 28. being transferred to the sentiment of v. 34. The expression has already…
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