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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
This is a plan, gather a council: place your shadow as if it were night in the middle of the day, hide those who are fleeing, and do not disclose the wanderers. My outcasts will dwell with you: Moab, be their hiding place from the face of the destroyer, for the dust is at an end, the wretched one is consumed, the one who trampled on the earth has ceased. Instead of 'wretched' in Hebrew, 'Sod' is read, which can also be understood as 'destroyer'. …
Thomas Aquinas
Here he ordains the punishment against their contempt of the counsel they were given. And this is divided into three: in the first, he sets out the counsel; in the second, their contempt of the counsel: we have heard of the pride of Moab (Isa 16:6); in the third, the punishment of those who hold it in contempt, where it says, therefore shall Moab howl (Isa 16:7). Concerning the first, he sets out three things. First, he exhorts them to deliberation: take counsel, as if to say: deliberate over how you might be saved. …
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