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What the Fathers say

Isaiah 57:4

Western Saints

Jerome

Are you not wicked children, a deceitful seed, who console yourselves in gods beneath every leafy tree, sacrificing little ones in the torrents under threatening ((Vulg. lofty)) rocks? LXX: Are you not sons of perdition: an unjust seed, who call upon idols beneath leafy trees, sacrificing your sons in the valleys amidst the rocks? You, he says, have done these things that the preceding discourse narrated. Who are you, wicked sons of perdition, like Judas the betrayer, who is called the son of perdition (Jn. …

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Thomas Aquinas

First, he accuses them of blasphemy, setting out the custom of sin, inasmuch as they imitate their fathers in this: you sons of the sorceress, who tended to auguries against my commandment, the seed of the adulterer, inasmuch as they abandoned me and adhered to idols: judge your mother, judge her (Hos 2:2). He also sets out the species of sin: upon whom have you jested? As if to say: upon God, blaspheming him, above: whom have you reproached? (Isa 37:23). Second, he accuses them of idolatry. …

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