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Isaiah 2:10

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Jerome

Enter into the rock: Hide in the pit, covered by the ground, from the face of the fear of the Lord and from the glory of His majesty. Indeed, I have exhorted the people, saying: House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Second, he places, ironically, the counsel to escape, saying, "enter you"; as if to say, since he himself does not send you away, it remains that you should hide yourself from his face. "Enter you into the rock," literally, into the fissures of the rocks to remain there; "hide you in the pit," that is, in the caverns of the earth, "from the face of the fear of the Lord," that is, from the face of those through whom God proves that he is to be feared and glorified: "leave the cities" (Jer 48:28); but this does not avail them, hence in …

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