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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
The scorching wind shall carry him off, and take him away. And as a whirlwind shall carry him out of his place. Who is in this place called the 'scorching wind' but the evil spirit, who stirs up the flames of divers lusts in the heart, that he may drag it to an eternity of punishments? And so 'the scorching wind' is said to 'carry off' any bad men, because the plotter, the evil spirit, who inflames a man whilst living to evil, drags him when dying to torments. …
Thomas Aquinas
Finally, he shows the frailty of earthly prosperity as to the person himself of man, who sometimes may die from some fever or some persecution. To express this he says, "The blustering wind takes him away," that is, will kill him with fever, "and will bear him away," from the society of the living. This will happen suddenly and unexpectedly, and so the text continues, "and like a whirlwind he will be snatched from where he stands," violently and without delay.
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