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Isaiah 42:22

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Jerome

But the people are plundered and devastated: all the youth are trapped in snares, and hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, and there is no one to deliver them; a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them.' LXX: And I saw, and behold a people is destroyed and taken captive. For there was a snare in the hidden places, and a net over their houses. They have become a prey: and there was no one to deliver the spoil: and there was no one to say, Restore. …

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Thomas Aquinas

And he also shows their contradiction, because they sinned against themselves: but this is a people that is robbed, by demons through various sins, and therefore they are wasted, by enemies, above: from a people rent and torn in pieces (Isa 18:7); also by others who furnished the occasion of sin: the snare, that is, the occasion of sin, of young men, the foolish: you have been a snare to them (Hos 5:1); and because they hid their sins in the houses of prisons, that is, in the secret of their hearts: with a double heart have they …

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