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Isaiah 26:2

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Jerome

Open the gates, and let the just nation enter, guarding the truth. The ancient error has gone away, you shall keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in you. You have hoped in the Lord in eternal ages. LXX: Open the gates, let the nation enter, guarding justice, and guarding truth, holding onto truth, and guarding peace: peace, because they have hoped in you, Lord, forever. …

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Thomas Aquinas

598. Second, the Lord foretells their justice, saying to the angels: open the gates, of heaven or of virtue, closed by sins; or, literally: it is not necessary for you to close the gates because of the unfaithful, for they are all just: this is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it (Ps 117:20). 610. …

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