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Isaiah 4:5

Western Saints

Jerome

And the Lord will create (or created) over every place of Mount Zion, and where he is invoked, a cloud by day, and smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire at night. For in Christ there is a new creation, of which we read elsewhere: The old things have passed away: behold, all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). …

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Thomas Aquinas

139. And the Lord created. Here he shows their security from enemies, and he continues the metaphor: for because he had compared tribulation to burning, he compares security to a cloud and to a tabernacle, by which one is defended from the burning heat. And this is divided into two parts. First, he promises divine protection, under the similitude of a cloud; in the second, under the similitude of a tabernacle, where it says, and there shall be a tabernacle (Isa 4:6). 140. Concerning the first, he does three things. …

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