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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Shake off the dust; arise, Jerusalem! Loose the bonds of your neck, captive daughter Zion. For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. LXX: Shake off the dust; arise, Jerusalem! Loose the bonds of your neck, captive daughter Zion. For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, he promises liberation from the baseness of her inhabitants, for some of the poor of the land were left behind, as it says in 2 Kings 25:12 and Jeremiah 52:16; shake yourself from the dust, of baseness, arise, resisting your adversaries, and then next, sit, at rest: he raises up the needy from the dust (1 Sam 2:8). Also on the words, loose the bonds (Isa 52:2), note that there are bonds from which God loosens: first, of worldly solicitude: who has sent out the wild ass free, and who has loosed his bonds? …
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