“People who are ill-disposed usually close their eyes when they see someone who has injured them and look away when those who have offended them beg forgiveness. But these things are said in a human way, because the divinity is not composite but simple and infinite.”
Theodoret of Cyrus, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON BARUCH 2:17
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17Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:
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15That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.
16O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.
— Baruch 2:17 —
18But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.
19Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.