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Isaiah 1:29

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Jerome

For they will be confounded by the idols to which they sacrificed, and you will be ashamed of the gardens you have chosen. And when they are saved, they will be ashamed of those who previously sacrificed to idols, and they will blush in the gardens they had chosen. However, it signifies places of luxury, groves and forests.

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Thomas Aquinas

64. For they shall be confounded. Here he places the manner of destruction: and first, as to the confusion of sin; second, as to the subtraction of good, where it says, when you shall be (Isa 1:30). Concerning the first, against idolatry, he ordains confusion, saying, they shall be confounded by the idols, that is, because of the idols: let them be all confounded that adore graven things (Ps 96:7); against pleasure, he ordains shame, when he says, you shall be ashamed of the gardens, that is, the places of pleasure, which you have …

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