As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
Here is excluded a tendency for excluding four things which could be evaded. First, is the aid of friends. As was said: "Our eyes failed, ever watching": as we would expect,"vainly for help": from the Egyptians. As Isaiah 30:3 says: "Therefore shall the protection of Pharoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation."
