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Isaiah 30:12

Western Saints

Jerome

Therefore thus says the Holy Lord of Israel: Because you have rejected this word and have put your trust in oppression and in deceit, and have relied on it, therefore this iniquity shall be for you like a breach in a high wall that is sought after and cannot be found, like a jar of clay that is broken beyond repair, so that no fragment of it is found for taking fire from the hearth or for drawing water from the cistern. …

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Thomas Aquinas

674. Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel. Here he threatens destruction to them, resuming the subject of their guilt that the punishment may appear more just: because you have rejected this word.

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