Jeremias 31:1
At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In tempore illo, dicit Dominus, ero Deus universis cognationibus Israël, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 38:1
- Ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ ἐκείνῳ, εἶπεν Κύριος, ἔσομαι εἰς θεὸν τῷ γένει Ἰσραήλ, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בָּעֵ֤ת הַהִיא֙ נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה אֶֽהְיֶה֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים לְכֹ֖ל מִשְׁפְּח֣וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהֵ֖מָּה יִֽהְיוּ לִ֥י לְעָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Israel. The ten tribes returned as well as Juda, &c. (Calmet)
They were more ready to receive Christ than the other two tribes, Matthew xiii., &c. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On the Holy Trinity, In How Many Ways the Creature is to Be Taken by Way of Sign. The Eucharist
Excepting, therefore, all these things as I just now said, there are some also of another kind; which, although from the same corporeal substance, are yet brought within reach of our senses in order to announce something from God, and these are properly called miracles and signs; yet is not the person of God Himself assumed in all things which are announced to us by the Lord God. When, however, that person is assumed, it is sometimes made manifest as an angel; sometimes in that form which is not an angel in his own proper being, although it is ordered and ministered by an angel. …