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What the Fathers say

Isaiah 44:22

Western Saints

Jerome

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. LXX: Behold, I have blotted out your iniquities as a cloud, and your sins as a mist. Return to me, and I will redeem you. …

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Thomas Aquinas

And as to the benefit presented, or promised: I have blotted out, or I will blot out, your iniquities as a cloud, that is, easily: our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist (Wis 2:3). Second, he sets out the calling: return: return to me (Jer 3:1).

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