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Isaiah 3:7

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Jerome

And he shall answer in that day, saying, I am not a physician, and in my house there is no bread nor clothing; do not make me the ruler of the people. For physician, Symmachus and the Septuagint translated principem as Theodotio, ἐπιδεσμεύοντα, who binds wounds and provides for health. He shall answer, in Hebrew it is not found, but it is added from the Septuagint. In Hebrew, for it is joined with the things that are written above: In that day he shall say, I am not a physician, and so on. …

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Thomas Aquinas

107. He shall answer. Here the refusal of the one elected is set out. And first, his reasonable excuse is shown; second, his renunciation of office is concluded where it says, make me not ruler of the people. In excuse, he brings forward three things, namely, his impotence to repel harmful things: I am no healer, namely, that I might heal your miseries: is there no balm in Galaad? Or is there no physician there? …

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