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Isaiah 51:20

Western Saints

Jerome

Your sons are cast out, they have slept at the head of all the streets, like a trapped wild goat: full of the indignation of the Lord, the rebuke of your God. LXX: Your sons are destitute and sleeping at the head of all the streets: like a half-cooked beet, full of the fury of the Lord, and lacking from the Lord your God. …

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Thomas Aquinas

938. Third, he shows the reason for this: your children are cast forth, from their land, they have slept at the head of all the ways, resting on the way, when they were led in captivity. As the oryx, "orix, oricis," an unclean animal, the water mouse, or an animal that sleeps a lot, namely, the lira, or a certain bird which is in Africa; or "orix, origis," a clean animal similar to a goat, about which, see Deuteronomy 14:5; according to the Septuagint: the beta, which is a certain plant that fades quickly in the heat of the sun, or a …

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