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Isaiah 24:20

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Thomas Aquinas

And through the similitude of shaken things, which are not made stable: with trembling shall the earth be moved, from place to place, shaken, as if trembling in its own place, as a drunken man, above: they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggers and vomits (Isa 19:14); and through the similitude of a traveler's tent, which is not fixed firmly in the same place: as the tent, below: my generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent (Isa 38:12). …

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