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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"The streams of the river make glad the City of God" [Psalm 46:4]. When the mountains shake, when the sea rages, God deserts not His City, by the streams of the river. What are these streams of the river? That overflowing of the Holy Spirit, of which the Lord said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believes in Me, out of his bosom shall flow rivers of living water." [John 7:37-38] These rivers then flowed out of the bosom of Paul, Peter, John, the other Apostles, the other faithful Evangelists. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Of the river." Under a certain likeness he set forth the tribulations that the saints endured; here, however, under another likeness he proposes the divine consolation with respect to two things: namely, with respect to the abundance of divine grace, and with respect to the solace of the divine presence, at "God is in the midst of it." And just as tribulation is expressed under the likeness of roaring and troubled waters, so consolation is expressed under the likeness of a river, which signifies grace on account of the abundance of …
Bonaventure
"There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God," that is, the one "coming forth from the throne of God and of the Lamb," the Holy Spirit. And there will be no inner defect, since "they shall neither hunger nor thirst" through lack of sustainment by which life is lost; "neither shall the sun strike them" through any external harm.
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