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Isaiah 58:10

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Jerome

If you remove the chain from your midst, and you cease to extend your finger, and to speak what is not helpful. When you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday. …

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Thomas Aquinas

When you shall pour out your soul to the hungry, through compassion, and shall satisfy the afflicted soul, through assistance in necessities. 1030. Second, he promises the reward: then shall your light rise up. And first, as to the multiplication of goods, setting out liberation from evils: then shall your light rise up in darkness, that is, adversity will be turned into the light of prosperity, ignorance into the light of knowledge, or sin into the light of knowledge, as to spiritual evils.

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