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Isaiah 44:21

Western Saints

Jerome

Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant: I have formed you, you are my servant, O Israel, do not forget me. LXX: Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you, my servant: and you, Israel, do not forget me. When these things are thus, and know that idols of men are figments, O Jacob and my Israel, do not forget your Creator, and do not do injury to yourself, so that you bow down to the work of your hands.

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Thomas Aquinas

Remember these things. Here he calls them back to worship of him. And first, he assigns the reason, setting out the duty of servitude: remember these things, that is, consider the worthlessness of idols; my servant: the portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the scepter of his inheritance (Jer 51:19).

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