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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. LXX: for I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have made your exchange for Egypt, and Ethiopia, and Seba for you. Therefore, He commands them not to fear, because the Lord their God, the Savior, and the holy one of Israel will be with them, who made them known in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Syene, and even to the ends of the earth to proclaim. …
Thomas Aquinas
And he assigns the reason for this: for I am the Lord, above: for God himself is my savior (Isa 12:2). Second, he promises the commutation of their punishments, namely, that he would punish others in their place; and he sets out the commutation: I have given Egypt for your atonement, that is, that I may be propitiated toward you, as though by the punishments of those who provoked you to sin by hoping in their help: Saba, a city of Ethiopia: the just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him (Prov 11:8).
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