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Isaiah 23:6

Western Saints

Jerome

Go to Carthage: howl, you who dwell in this island. Is this not your insult from the beginning before it was handed over? They will lead it far on foot to wander. That which follows: They will lead it far on foot to wander, is added from Hebrew, and is prenoted by an asterisk, that is, by illuminating stars. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Pass over the seas. Here he foretells the flight of the fearful, as to those who, when Nabuchodonosor was attacking the city, fled into Egypt with their ships. And first, he exhorts them to flight, second, to constancy or haste of flight: pass your land (Isa 23:10). Concerning the first, he does three things. First, the flight of the fearful: pass over, you who flee, howl, you who remain, above: the branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea (Isa 16:8).

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