Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has darkened me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

the sun: the pressure of tribulations, or Christ. (Haimo of Auxerre) For when the Lord comes he darkens the person whom he has touched closely by grace; for the closer we draw to Him the more we know ourselves to be sinners. (St. Gregory the Great) I have not kept: In this text, the Bride makes a distinction and says that she deserted her own vineyard, not the one of the Lord. (Apponius)

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