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Isaiah 17:10

Western Saints

Jerome

Because you have forgotten your God and have not remembered your powerful helper. These things, he says, you will endure, O Israel, because you have forsaken your God, who has freed you from Egypt, who has subjected enemy nations to you; and you have not remembered your helper. Therefore you will plant a faithful plantation, and you will sow a foreign seed. This should be read more closely and ironically. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Second, the reason for the desolation is set out: and you shall be desolate because you have forgotten God your savior: you have forsaken the God that begot you, and have forgotten the Lord that created you (Deut 32:18). Therefore shall you plant. Here he threatens barrenness of fruit, and concerning this, he does three things. …

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