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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cosmas Indicopleustes
As a swallow so shall I chatter, and as a dove so shall I mourn; that is, In the time of my sickness I would utter cries like the sharp and quivering notes of the swallow, and in my pangs I would wail after the wont of doves. The words, I shall chatter, and I shall mourn are used instead of I chattered and I mourned, one tense being put for another—this being an idiom of frequent occurrence in divine scripture; as when Isaiah says: He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, instead of he will be led. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Second, as to the deferral of hope; and he sets out things: the compunction of the one who hopes: I will cry like a young swallow, looking for its mother, because it does not see her, like a dove, namely, with mourning: her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves (Nah 2:7). And he sets out the deferral of hope: my eyes are weakened, as though fatigued, looking upward, in hope: hope that is deferred afflicts the soul (Prov 13:12); I have lifted up my eyes (Ps 121:1). …
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