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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] Because, while they refuse to believe the truth, they lose for ever the knowledge of the Law, and while they boast of having received the Law, they are, doubtless, blinded by boasting of their knowledge. For it is written, Let their eyes be darkened that they see not. And again it is written, Blind the hearts of this people, and make their ears heavy. …
Thomas Aquinas
But on the contrary sometimes men die either buried by the earth or even crushed by walls falling in an earthquake, and so he says, "their light will be withheld from the wicked," by death. Sometimes fortifications and very strong towers are cast down by an earthquake, and as to this he says, "and their upraised arm," is broken, that is, a very strong fortification or some powerful friend in whom a man confides like his own arm.
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