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Isaiah 57:20

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Jerome

But the wicked are like a boiling sea that cannot rest, and its waves churn up mire and filth. There is no peace, says God, for the wicked. LXX: But the wicked will waver and cannot rest. There is no joy for the wicked, says the Lord God. But the wicked and the unjust will be tossed like a boiling sea and will never be able to rest. …

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Thomas Aquinas

But the wicked are like the raging sea. Here he confirms what he had said about the wicked through a certain similitude. And first, he sets out the similitude itself: raging, that is, always fluctuating; and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire, to the shore, where they make mire and are trampled: he shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot (Job 41:22).

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