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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain. "If we take this from the creation of the world, this chapter agrees with the words of the Lord, in which He says, "there will be trouble and difficulty as there has not been since the beginning of creation, but this will not happen. For the sun will grow dark and the moon will not shed light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the virtues of heaven will be moved" [Matth. 24, 21.19.]. …
Bonaventure
With respect to the absence of what is pleasant, he says: "Before the sun grows dark," in whose sight there is great delight: above in chapter eleven: "The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the sun"; whence Tobit 5: "What joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness and do not see the light of heaven?" And to signify the complete absence, he excludes every heavenly light; whence he says: "Before the sun grows dark," so that it may not be seen in its circuit, "and the light," so that its influence may not be seen, …
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