Jerusalem fell. Jeremiah sat over the ruins, lamenting over the reasons for its fall. What reason, do you think, did the prophet reveal for the disaster that befell Jerusalem? Perhaps there were more than one, but he mentioned that the most important was this: Jerusalem did not remember its own death. She did not consider her destiny. And so, when the usual flow of earthly, corruptive things does not inspire people to think of death, when they do not pay attention to the ones admonishing them with this short word of salvation, and sin increases, then God, who does not want the eternal death of
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