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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
But perhaps it is only what is past that has been described to us: but nothing of the kind is to be hoped for by us for the future. Nay indeed, it is still to be hoped for. "Through Thee will we winnow away our enemies" (ver. 5). Our fathers then have declared to us a work that Thou didst "in their days, and in the days of old," that Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles: that Thou "didst cast out the peoples; and didst plant them." Such was the past; but what is to be hereafter? …
Bede
In the Scriptures it is often the custom for horns to designate the eminence of faith and of the virtues with which we ought to strike out against and overcome the hostile advances of our ancient enemy, joining the prophet in saying to the Lord, "Through you we will fight against our enemies with the horn."
Thomas Aquinas
"Through you we shall push back our enemies." Here he sets forth the confidence he has in God. And first he proposes what he hopes; second he shows that he attributes this to God; third he sets forth the cause. He hopes for help against enemies, against whom he has a twofold help: one, that he may conquer the enemy; and as to this he says, "Through you," that is, by your power, not by our own, "we shall scatter with our horn," that is, our enemies, whether in the present or in the future. …
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