Thomas Aquinas

Second, he sets out the frustrated counsel of the Assyrians: you shall conceive heat, that is, you shall think that others burn; you shall bring forth stubble, that is, it shall follow that you yourself shall be burned; your breath, that is, your indignation, shall devour, namely, the flesh under your hide: he has opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made (Ps 7:16). 726. …

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