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Isaiah 10:1

Western Saints

Jerome

"Woe to those who establish unjust laws and write injustice." Most people still believe that these things are said against the ten tribes who lived in Samaria, because they too joined in the previous crimes. But to us it seems that the prophetic word is crying out against the judges of the tribe of Judah and Jerusalem, namely the Scribes and the Pharisees, because they have written unjust laws against God's law and have undermined the truth of justice with their traditions. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten against foreign enemies who persecute them bodily: and first, against those who lay waste, second, against those who rejoice in this laying waste: in the year that king Achaz died (Isa 14:28). The first of these is divided into two: in the first, he threatens against the Assyrians who were taking the ten tribes captive and afflicting the two tribes; in the second, against the Babylonians who take the two tribes captive: the burden of Babylon (ch. 13). …

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