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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
The house ascends, and Dimon goes up to the high places to mourn. LXX: Be sad for yourselves, for Dimon will perish, where the altar is; there you shall go up to lament. The whole house of adversarial wisdom, and Dibon, which means their downfall, ascends to the high places, where it had pridefully exalted itself: not to offer sacrifices, but to mourn for the sins it had committed before. And truly, falsehood passes like a river, and flows by, and can never stay in a stable dwelling. …
Thomas Aquinas
434. The house is gone up. Here he shows the magnitude of their punishment from the magnitude of their weeping, and he sets out three things. First, he foretells their weeping, both as to those who weep: the house, namely, the royal house, and Dibon, a certain noble city; and as to the place: is gone up to mourn, that is, to weep, to the high places, in which they offered sacrifices to idols, that they might seek help in their mourning; and as to the matter: Moab, the entire province, has howled over Nabo and over Medaba, certain …
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