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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
And thus He fasted when He was tempted, still in need of food before death; but He ate and drank when He was glorified, after the resurrection no longer in need of food. There He was showing in Himself our struggle, here in us His consolation, defining both in forty days. …
Jerome
"From the rising of the sun and from its setting, from the north and the sea." He seems indeed to have named four climes: the east, the west, the south, and the north — that is, the four climes of the world. But the psalm does not contain it so. For here it has: "from the rising of the sun and from its setting" — behold, two climes; "from the north," that is, from the region of the septentrion — behold, three climes. "And the sea." The sea, surely, is in the west. So then see that he named the west twice, and the south not even once. …
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