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Isaiah 42:16

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Jerome

And I will lead the blind on a path they do not know, and I will make them walk on paths they have not known. I will turn darkness into light in front of them, and I will make crooked paths straight. These are the things I will do for them, and I will not abandon them. LXX: And I will lead the blind along a way they do not know, and I will make their paths uneven; I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight paths. I will speak these words to them, and I will not abandon them. …

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Thomas Aquinas

824. And I will lead. Here he sets out the resurrection of the good as to three things: first, as to the restoration of action: I will lead the blind, namely, the gentiles, into the way, Christ, or the precept of the law, or also the Jews, according to another explanation: I will lead you by the paths of equity (Prov 4:11); second, as to the illumination of the intellect: I will make darkness light before them: to enlighten them that sit in darkness (Luke 1:79); third, as to the direction of the affections: and crooked things, …

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