Thomas Aquinas, on Isa 19:19

“In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof:”

“The second sign is a sacred building: an altar of the Lord; and a monument, for they worshipped many gods, as it says in Acts 17. Some say that this was fulfilled in the time of the Maccabees, when many Jews were fleeing into Egypt, and Onias, wishing to fulfill this prophecy, built an altar against the precept of the law. Which is against Deuteronomy 12: you shall not build an altar to me; and which is denounced in Daniel 11:14, and the children of prevaricators of your people shall lift up themselves to fulfill the vision, and they shall fall; hence it is clear that this can only be understood of the building of altars for Christian worship.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.