Eye worn out yet tears continue; persistence draws mercy
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Instead of “my eye was worn out, and it will not be silent from there being no sobering,” (Lamentations 3:49) Symmachus said: “my eye persisted, and it did not cease from there being no relief.”And the Seventy show that although the eyes had weakened from a multitude of tears they still were not leaving off—he not being able to sober from the weeping—and Symmachus that I both persisted weeping and was not leaving off; for stretched-out prayer and intensification of tears draws God toward mercy.