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Isaiah 46:4

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Alexandria

But since their heart was not responsive to his promptings, he predicted the evils to come so that they would be gradually troubled by these terrors and would cease their irregular and foul way of life.

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Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

O Lord our God, under the shadow of your wings let us hope; defend us and support us. You will bear us up when we are little, and even down to our gray hairs you will carry us. For our stability, when it is in you, is stability indeed; but when it is in ourselves, then it is all unstable. Our good lives forever with you, and when we turn from you with aversion, we fall into our own perversion. Let us now, O Lord, return that we be not overturned, because with you our good lives without blemish—for our good is you yourself.

Confessions 4.15.31 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

From the continuation of his carrying them: even to your old age, that is, to the end of the world: unto old age and grey hairs (Ps 71:18); from the reason for his carrying them: I have made you, it is fitting that he who made you should preserve you: he spread his wings, and has taken him and carried him on his shoulders (Deut 32:11).

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