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Isaiah 28:10

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Jerome

"My conscience is at rest, and I know that it is not from any fault of mine that I am suffering; moreover affliction in this world is a ground for expecting a reward hereafter." When the enemy was more than usually forward and ventured to reproach her to her face, she used to chant the words of the Psalter.… When she felt herself tempted, she dwelt upon the words of Deuteronomy.… In tribulations and afflictions she turned to the splendid language of Isaiah: "You that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts, look for …

Letter 108.18 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

644. For command. Here he sets out their contempt of teaching, and first, through the blasphemy by which they derided the prophets, saying, command, for they used these words in threatening, above: I will command the army of heaven: I will command the clouds (Jer 3); expect, here, in promising: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come (Hab 2:3).

Commentary on Isaiah ↗