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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. As we have shown, the preceding events have been for the good of the Egyptians. Five cities in their land will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of Hosts. They will have an altar to the Lord in their midst, as well as a marker, testimony, sign, and savior to deliver them. …
Thomas Aquinas
Third, he sets out the threefold effect of their conversion, namely, peace: in that day there shall be a way, which could not exist before because of the various kingdoms, which, when the Lord was born, were joined under the Romans; they shall serve, each other in trade; or because Syrian soldiers were in the Roman legions that guarded Egypt, above: nation shall not lift up sword against nation (Isa 2:4).
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