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Isaiah 29:1

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Jerome

Woe to Ariel, Ariel the city that David besieged. Year after year is added, the appointed feasts have come to an end. I will besiege Ariel, and she will be sad and mournful; she will be like an Ariel to me. I will encircle you like a sphere, and I will throw up a mound against you, and I will set up siege works against you. You will be brought low, and your speech will come from the ground, and your voice will be like that of a python from the earth, and your speech will mumble from the dust. …

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Thomas Aquinas

651. Woe to Ariel. In this part, he sets out threatening against the people or against the city, and this is divided into two parts; in the first, he threatens the punishment of temporal destruction; in the second, the punishment of spiritual blinding: be astonished (Isa 29:9). Concerning the first, he does two things: in the first, he threatens destruction; in the second, he sets out consolation of any kind: and the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream (Isa 29:7). …

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