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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Your leaders were disobedient, partners of thieves. Aquila, departing from the disobedient, interpreted for Symmachus, who turned aside. But the leaders called the scribes and the Pharisees, who departed from the Lord, indeed, abandoning the path of truth, they walked in a crooked way, and became accomplices of the traitor and the thieves of Judah. …
Thomas Aquinas
59. Your princes are faithless. Here he denounces the sin of the princes. And first, he shows that they are unfaithful in executing their office, because they do so for their own advantage and not that of the people: that anoint themselves with the best ointments, that drink wine in bowls (Amos 6:6); woe to the shepherds of Israel, that feed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds? (Ezek 34:2); and because of this, he says they are faithless. …
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