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Isaiah 8:1

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Jerome

Chapter 8 — Verses 1-4. And the Lord said to me: Take for yourself a large book, and write in it with the pen of a man, quickly seize the spoils, swiftly plunder. And I appointed faithful witnesses for myself, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Barachiah, and I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. …

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Thomas Aquinas

263. And the Lord said to me: take you a great book. Here he foretells the destruction of the ten tribes, insofar as it pertains to their punishment. This was carried out by the Assyrians: first, in the reign of Phacee, by Theglathphalasar, who captured the two and a half tribes which were across the Jordan, and many people from the tribes of Zebulon and Naphtali (2 Kgs 15); afterwards, by Salmanasar, who reduced the remaining tribes to captivity (2 Kgs 18:9–12). …

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