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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Thus says the Lord God of hosts: Go, go into him who dwells in the tabernacle, to Shebna, the overseer of the Temple, and say to him: What are you doing here? Or who are you here, because you have dug for yourself here a tomb? You have dug your memorial on high, diligently in the rock you have made a dwelling for yourself. Behold, the Lord will carry you away: like the lifting of a rooster or like a garment he will lift you up. …
Thomas Aquinas
Thus says the Lord God of hosts. Here the threat against those to whom pertained authority in spiritual affairs is set out, and first, against the priest at that time; second, against the entire priestly order: in that day, says the Lord of hosts (Isa 22:25). Concerning the first, he does two things: first, he foretells the deposition of him who, shaken by fear, handed the city over to Sennacherib, that is, the lower part of the city; second, the substitution of another: and it shall come to pass in that day (Isa 22:20). …
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