Thomas Aquinas

Second, he denounces a threefold sin: of unworthy dwelling: what dost you here, in my house, unworthy of such a dwelling: what is the meaning that my beloved has wrought much wickedness in my house? (Jer 11:15); of proud presumption concerning himself: or as if you wert somebody here, you think of yourself as if you were of some value, when you are nothing: O shepherd, and idol (Zech 11:17); of building an elaborate tomb: you have hewed out, here in Jerusalem next to the temple, a monument, that is, an epitaph, in a high place, that …

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