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Isaiah 33:23

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Thomas Aquinas

731. Your tacklings are loosed. Here he foretells the destruction of the ungrateful Jews, carried out afterwards by the Romans, and he sets out three things. First, their powerlessness to resist: your tacklings are loosed, that is, prepared, that you may defend yourself against the Romans. This is said according to a likeness of a ship which is prepared for the same. …

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