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Isaiah 29:2

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Thomas Aquinas

The siege: and I will make a trench, namely, by the Chaldees: and lay siege against it (Ezek 4:2); and he intimates the taking of the city from its sadness: and it shall be in sorrow: my sighs are many (Lam 1:22). 654. Third, he sets out the reparation made under Jesus the high priest and others, about whom it is written through all of Ezra. And it shall be to me as Ariel, as if to say: retaining a shadow of its former dignity. On the contrary: great is the glory of this last house more than of the first (Hag 2:10). …

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