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Isaiah 42:13

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Jerome

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a warrior he shall stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry out: he shall strengthen himself against his enemies. LXX: The Lord God of hosts will go forth and crush the battle, he will stir up zeal, and he will cry out against his enemies with strength. …

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Thomas Aquinas

823. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man. Here he foretells the coming fall of the wicked through the coming of Christ; and concerning this, he sets out four things. First, power: the Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, to fight against the Jews through the Romans: the Lord is as a man of war (Exod 15:3); zeal, for vengeance: the zeal and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge (Prov 6:34); second, he sets out wrath: he shall shout, through the tribulations which he sends upon them; against what is said above, …

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