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Lamentations 4:21

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Thomas Aquinas

Here those isolated, and principally the Edomites, are threatened first. Then second, the Jews are comforted. As to the first (the Edomites), joy is excluded. As said: "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom." That is, be laughingly. As 2 Samuel (2 Kings) 1:20 records: "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon." And: "O daughter of Edom". Namely, the people of Edom, "dwellers in the land of Uz". …

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