Thomas Aquinas

Here he shows their guilt. And first, in general, second, in particular, at: "and have had soothsayers." Concerning the first, he does two things. First, he shows their separation from God, when he says, "for you have cast off," and, as the Gloss continues, rightly are they to be called, because you have cast off. "Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?" (Jer 22:28). …

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