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Commentary On Jeremiah And Lamentations Volume 5 by Jean Calvin

Lamentations 3:22

22. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

22. Clementite Jehovae, quod non sumus consumpti (vel, certe non sunt consumptae,) certe non defecerunt miscrationes ejus.

The first clause may be explained in two ways: The view commonly taken is, that it ought to be ascribed to God's mercy that the faithful have not been often consumed. Hence a very useful doctrine is elicited -- that God succors his own people, lest they should wholly perish. But if we attend to the context, we shall see that another sense is more suitable, even that the mercies of God were not consumed, and that his compassion's had not failed The particle ky, ki, is inserted, but ought to be taken as an affirmative only, surely the mercies of God are not consumed; and then, -- surely his compassion's have not failed. And he afterwards adds, --

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