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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the house of the strong man … he raided it and, throwing away the broken chains and the bonds of dark hell, he gave him over to the judgment of the great day to be kept for punishment.… Then Christ has conquered, and he has passed the victory on to us.… For he is the sole cause of our salvation. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Therefore, the Lord who judges those who oppressed Zion, whether he judges their judgement or liberates the children of those who were captured by the giant, he will save and feed his adversaries with their own flesh, and he will make them drunk with wine, so that they will be satisfied not with the death of others, but with their own death. And those who are flesh, because they have lost God's spirit, let them feed on their own flesh. …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, he excludes this doubt: for thus says the Lord, first, setting out the benefit of liberation: even the captivity, namely of the Jews: I broke the jaws of the wicked man (Job 29:17); second, the manner of liberation, setting out the destruction of their enemies: but I will judge those, namely, the Chaldeans, that have judged you, unjustly: I will cut off all that have afflicted you (Zeph 3:19).
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