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Isaiah 30:19

Western Saints

Jerome

For the people of Zion will dwell in Jerusalem. The Jews refer these things to the time of Cyrus, when the people returned from Babylon to Judaea under Zerubbabel and the high priest Joshua. But we, as we have often said already, refer all the promises that surpass the mediocrity of that time to the coming of Christ, in which the once captive people, freed by the passion of the Lord, dwelled in Zion and Jerusalem, namely, in the watchtower and vision of peace, that is, in the Church. …

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Thomas Aquinas

678. For the people. Here he describes the benefit of mercy, and first, in their exaltation, second, in the oppression of their enemies: behold the name (Isa 30:27). Concerning the first, he sets out two things. First, the removal of evils against the captivity of exile: for the people of Zion shall dwell in Jerusalem, in the time of Zorobabel; or rather, all, mystically: he shall not be moved for ever that dwells in Jerusalem (Ps 124:1–2); against the anxiety of sadness: weeping, before, you shall not weep, forever, but when you …

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