Thomas Aquinas

Second, he sets out the fairness of the desolation, and first, the judgment of fairness: and a line shall be stretched upon it, the measure of the punishment against the measure of their fault, a plummet, the rule of the stone-cutter, above: in measure against measure (Isa 27:8); second, he sets out the manner of judgment: the nobles thereof, in whom they boasted: I will take away out of the midst of you your proud boasters (Zeph 3:11).

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