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Isaiah 1:17

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

Let us labor earnestly then to become clean; He has enjoined nothing burdensome. "Judge the fatherless, and do justice for the widow." Thou seest everywhere how great account God makes of mercy, and of standing forward in behalf of those that are wronged. These good deeds let us pursue after, and we shall be able also, by the grace of God, to attain to the blessings to come.

On The Epistle To The Hebrews 12:4 ↗

Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

53. Learn to do well. Here he gives the remedy as to the following of good. And first, that they learn it; second, that they fulfill it in deed, where it says, relieve the oppressed. For someone does good in ordering himself, and as to this he says, learn to do well: be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you, lest I make you desolate, a land uninhabited (Jer 6:8); in regard to one's neighbor, and he says, seek judgment: the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently (Job 29:16); stand on the ways, and …

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