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Hebrews 3:8

Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

175. – Therefore, if that is the benefit, here is the admonition, harden not your hearts. For a hard heart smacks of evil. That is hard which does not yield, but resists and does not receive an impression. Therefore, man's heart is hard, when it does not yield to God's command nor easily receive divine impressions: 'A hard heart shall fear evil at the last' (Sir. 3:27); 'But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath' (Rom. 2:5). …

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