Lamentations 2:8 (LXX): What the Church Fathers Said

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Lamentations 2:8

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Thomas Aquinas

The destruction of the ark of Zion is here considered. First it is viewed as a divine revelation. "The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall": Namely, as if the Lord, so considering, determines not to fulfill immediately. Then: "the wall of the daughter of Zion" - That is, as relates to the tabernacle, the ark, or Jerusalem itself. As Isaiah 14:26 says: "This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations." Second, a last judgment is considered. …

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