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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
For the people provoke to anger, and the sons are liars, sons unwilling to listen to the law of God. They say to the seers, "Do not see"; and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us pleasant words; see us errors. Depart from me the way; turn aside from me the path; let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us." It is clear that they have provoked the Lord to anger, not wanting to hear the words of Jeremiah (Jer. 43). …
Thomas Aquinas
673. For it is a people. Here he sets out the contempt of the people, and first, the contempt by which they despised God: that provokes to wrath, as to sin of transgression: do not you provoke me, as the house of Israel provokes me (Ezek 2:8); and lying children, as to sin of speech, for they promised obedience to Jeremiah, a promise which they would not keep, as it says in Jeremiah 42. …
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