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Isaiah 30:24

Western Saints

Jerome

And rain will be given to your seed wherever you sow it in the land, and the bread of the earth will be most abundant and rich. LXX: Then rain will be given to the seed of your land, and the bread of the earth will be plentiful and rich. It is written in the Book of Kings (3 Kings 18) that after the false prophets were killed by Elijah, rain was given to the land of Israel. …

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Thomas Aquinas

And your oxen, as to cattle; and in both, he notes their fecundity, setting out their young, and the ass colts; and as to provisions for beasts of burden: mingled provender, pure barley with husks, which they ate mingled before.

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