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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Therefore my loins are filled with pain: anguish has taken hold of me, like the anguish of a woman in labor: I am bowed down when I hear it, I am troubled when I see it. My heart is faint, darkness has overwhelmed me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me. The prophets are therefore obscured, because many individuals are changed in them. …
Thomas Aquinas
511. Third, he designates the compassion of the prophet himself, which he designates as to the body, to which the affections of the mind redound, and this as to the feeling of pain: therefore are my loins filled with pain, that is, I suffer thus like one who suffers pain in the kidneys: there were pains as of a woman in labor (Ps 47:7[48:6]); and as to falling: I fell down; and as to troubled expression: I was troubled: I was troubled, and I spoke not (Ps 76:5[77:4]; I am troubled in my exercise (Ps 54:3[55:2]).
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