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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cosmas Indicopleustes
I said in the noontide of my days I shall go, as if he said, I always cherished this thought in my heart, saying to myself, that I shall live always and never die. For by his saying: In the noontide of my days I shall go, he indicated that his days would never be shortened; and as if some one, while he was silent, had asked: while you were absorbed in these meditations what happened to you? …
Western Saints
Jerome
I said in the middle of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I have sought the remainder of my years. He narrates what he silently thought during the time of pressing distress and imminent weakness; I said, he says, in my heart, in the midst of my days, or as Aquila and Symmachus and Theodotion have interpreted, in the weakness and silence of my days, for which the LXX have interpreted it as 'exalted' due to the similarity of the letters, reading 'Rame' instead of 'Dame': although some have turned it into 'Dame', …
Thomas Aquinas
And he laments three things. First, the horror of death: in the midst of my days, that is, in my youth, to the gates of hell, that is, limbo, or death, or the grave: my life was drawing near to hell beneath (Sir 51:6).
Bonaventure
In the mystery of the anointing of kings, Christ is symbolized by David, Solomon, Ezechiah and Josiah. Christ is symbolized by Ezechiah: "Once I said, 'In the noontime of life I must depart! To the gates of the nether world I shall be consigned.'"
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