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Isaiah 9:17

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Thomas Aquinas

316. Therefore. Here he threatens against persons who are useful for provoking mercy, either because of integrity of the flesh: their young, namely, virgins; or because of age: their orphans; or because of weakness, widows. And first, the punishment is set out: neither shall he have mercy; second, the reason is set out as to dissimulation in works: for every one is a hypocrite; as to malice in the heart: and wicked; as to falsehood in the mouth: and every mouth has spoken folly: the hope of the hypocrite shall perish (Job 8:13). 317. …

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