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Lamentations 5:2

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Thomas Aquinas

Verse 2 considers the people's affliction. First, in general, second by going down to particular persons. As expressed in Verse 11: "Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah." As to the people's affliction in general are two ideas. First is excluded those things by which people are sustained against miseries. Namely, as to their possessions, passed over to enemies control. …

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