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Isaiah 63:5

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Thomas Aquinas

Second, he sets out the necessity of salvation: I looked about, and there was none to help, the human race, who could save it, above: he saw that there is not a man (Isa 59:16); or there was none to help, me on the cross: my brethren have withdrawn from me, and my acquaintance have departed from me (Job 19:13); I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me (Ps 141:5[142:4]); they compassed me on every side (Sir 51:10). …

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