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Isaiah 51:16

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Jerome

And He says that He has placed His words in his mouth. For whatever the Son speaks, the words are of the Father, and He will protect him in the shadow of His hand. And for this reason he will be protected so that he may plant new heavens and pour out a new earth, and say to Zion, that is, to the Church: You are my people. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Second, the authority granted to the prophet: I have put my words in your mouth, O Isaiah; that you might plant the heavens, that is, that you might foretell that the great of the people are to be planted, and found the earth, the lowly; or that you might plant, by your teachings.

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