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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
The waters are hardened after the likeness of a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed. For I remember that I have often taught already that 'waters' are taken for peoples. But by a 'stone,' by reason of its very hardness, the Gentile peoples are sometimes designated. For they themselves worshipped stones. And of these it is said by the Prophet, Let them, that make them, become like unto them, and all who trust in them. …
Thomas Aquinas
The other kind of ice is generated from the waters below where the cold is more intense, and so he says, "The waters harden like a stone," because the violent intensity of the cold hardens them to ice. This cold may be so great that in very cold climates even the seas freeze over, and expressing this he says, "and the surface of the deep is frozen," namely, the water which is on the surface is frozen by the cold. But cold air cannot penetrate to the depths of the sea.
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