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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And the people will fall, man against man, each one against his neighbor: the young will rise up against the old, and the lowly against the noble. When the young become leaders and mockers of the Lord, as the prophetic word describes, then no order of dignity, age, or knowledge will be preserved; but the young will rebel against the elderly, and the lowly against the noble, and they will fall together. And that Apostolic saying will be fulfilled: biting each other, you have been consumed by each other (Galatians 5:15). …
Thomas Aquinas
105. The effect of the government in the disturbance of the people is touched on in three ways. First, universal dissension, hence he says: the people shall fall, from the unity of peace through which they are a people, one to another, that is, one against another: where there is no governor, the people shall fall (Prov 11:14); they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd (Zech 10:2). …
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