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Isaiah 29:21

Western Saints

Jerome

. Why do people sin in words and overthrow the one who argues at the gate? And they turned away in vain from the just. But the demons, themselves wicked, made all men sin in speech, blaspheming with various teachings, and they would overthrow the one reproaching in the gate and in judgment as much as they could, and they made him turn away from righteousness, who was in the gates of the daughter of Zion, exalted from the gates of death; and he rebuked those who hated him in the gates. …

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Thomas Aquinas

That made men sin, by wicked example and teaching; that reproved them in the gate, as to contempt of instruction: they have hated him that rebukes in the gate (Amos 5:10); and declined in vain from the just, as to the vanity of sin, for that is vain, which fails to attain its end: what has pride profited us? Or what advantage has the boasting of riches brought us? (Wis 5:8).

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