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Isaiah 23:17

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Jerome

And it will be, after seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and He will restore it to its merchandise, and again it will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the earth. All these things are indicated by the consonant letters of the Greeks and the Phoenicians, that after seventy years, it was restored and returned to its former power, and it became a market for all nations, which I think are called fornications, just as one who commits fornication enters a brothel and gives a fee for …

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Thomas Aquinas

Second, he promises the benefit of a liberator: and it shall come to pass after seventy years; that the Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall commit fornication again, that is, she shall trade: I will glorify them (Jer 30:19). …

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