Lamentations 2:3 (LXX): What the Church Fathers Said

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Lamentations 2:3

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Thomas Aquinas

Herein Verse 3 is expressed the impotency for resisting. First is excluded human strength, or power. As said: "all the might of Israel." For, Psalm 75:10 claims: "All the horns of the wicked he will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted." Second is excluded any divine power. As Verse 3 continues: "he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy." That is, like any defense by which (the Lord God) came down upon them. …

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