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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Someone might wonder and say to himself, "Why does the prophetic oracle addressed to Damascus now mention the land that is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia?" At certain times the Israelites foolishly abandoned God the Savior of all and fell into the error of worshiping many gods. Paying no heed whatsoever to the law given by Moses, they were chastised by God, at times through foes who rose up against them and at times by other catastrophes. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Woe to the land with the sound of wings beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. The Hebrew word Selsel (), which Symmachus interpreted as noise, Theodotion as birds, and we translate as cymbal. Aquila translated bis umbram. But it should be known that umbra Sel () is said, but here the syllable itself is doubled. From which we can understand the saying: Woe to the land that promises help in the shadow of its wings. …
Thomas Aquinas
Woe to the land, the winged cymbal. Here he threatens against the Egyptians. And first, he threatens their punishment through comparison to what merits the punishment; in the second part, he describes the manner of the punishment: the burden of Egypt (ch. 19); in the third part, he designates the time of the punishment: in the year (ch. 20). …
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