Lamentations 2:21 (NIV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Lamentations 2:21

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Thomas Aquinas

Here is proclaimed a universality of punishment. About this three more views are advanced. First is viewed common punishment for everyone. As said: "in the dust of the streets", That is, the dead: "the young and the old," Namely, the strong ones, inside and outside the city. For, Jeremiah 51:22 declares: "with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the maiden." Second, the indignation of the person punishing is reckoned. …

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