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Isaiah 37:26

Western Saints

Jerome

Have you not heard what I did to him in the past? From ancient times I formed it, and now I have brought it forth, and it has become a ruin of the hills that fight against me, and of fortified cities. The inhabitants of those cities were brought low, they trembled and were confused. They became like the grass of the field, and the green herb, and the roof grass that withered before it could mature. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Here he adds divine power, speaking in the person of God himself. And first, as to eternal preordination: what I have done, what I have intended to do concerning exaltation and destruction, of old, from eternity, from the days of old I have formed it, the evil of punishment, which is carried out through him, I foresaw and preordained: for all things were known to the Lord our God, before they were created (Sir 23:20).

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