Hebrew סוּרֵי, pass. part. of רוּס, to depart [from God], and so, perhaps, “stragglers,” i.e. “straggling branches of [a strange vine];” or, as in English version, “degenerate branches,” rather than as in text, where Augustin gives, in amaritudinem, vitis aliena, following the LXX., which reads, “εἰς πικρίας ἡ ἄμπελος ἡ ἀλλοτρία.” The Vulgate is better: in pravum, vinea aliena.—Tr.
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