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Isaiah 30:22

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Jerome

And your teacher will not fly away from you anymore, and your eyes will see your instructor, and your ears will hear the word behind you, saying: This is the way, walk in it, neither to the right nor to the left. LXX: And those who deceive you will never come near you again, for your eyes will see those who have deceived you, and your ears will hear the words behind you of those who deceive, saying: This is the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left. …

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Thomas Aquinas

And also as to due worship of God: and you shall defile the plates of your graven things of silver, reducing them to common use: he defiled the high places, and demolished them (2 Kgs 23:8); the garment, every adornment of an idol. Second, as to temporal goods; hence he says, get you hence, namely, from spiritual goods to temporal goods.

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