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Isaiah 16:1

Western Saints

Jerome

Send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth, from the desert rock to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. This, we interpret, is not history, but prophecy. However, every prophecy is wrapped in riddles and, with interrupted sentences, while speaking of one thing, goes on to another: lest if it preserves the order of Scripture, it be not a prophecy, but a narrative. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Here he describes the condition of their punishment, and he sets out two conditions: first, equity on the part of the one who judges; second, deception on the part of the one who suffers the punishment: and it shall come to pass, when it is seen (Isa 16:12). Now equity of punishment is disposed from the preceding fault, and therefore it orders the fault. …

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