| Jeremiah 18:14
| Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?
| Snow. It continues on Libanus seven or eight months, (La Roque quoted. Univ. Hist. 2:p. 363) or all the year; (Tacitus, Hist. 5:6.) and hence the mountain is justly denominated "white," as the Alps and Albion are from albon. (Bochart; Parkhurst, p. 155.) (Haydock) --- Away. Yet my people abandon me, to serve idols! Hebrew may have many other senses to the same purpose. Septuagint, "Shall the mountain springs fail, or snow from Libanus? Shall a stream forcibly driven by the wind, turn aside?" (Haydock) --- The laws of nature are observed by inanimate things, and shall my people be so foolish as to follow mere vanity.
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