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Isaiah 8:16

Western Saints

Jerome

Join the testimonies, establish the law among my disciples, and I will wait for the Lord, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. The voice of the Lord speaking to the Prophet: because, he said, the Lord has become a stumbling stone and a rock of offense to the two houses of Israel, and they did not want to receive Emmanuel sent to them. Join the testimonies of the old Testament, and give them to my disciples, who have received the Gospel, namely the Apostles or the apostolic men. …

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Thomas Aquinas

290. Bind up the testimony. Here he sets out the closing of the law, and first, he sets out the hiding of the law, where it says, bind up the testimony, that is, roll up the prophecy of Christ in obscurity, lest the Jews see, for they are unworthy. Seal the law. …

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