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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
And the serpent is said to have cast water out of his mouth behind the woman like a river, to make her carry the river-borne burden; the divine Scripture allegorizes the temptation as a river, saying that through Jonah he "cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and rivers surrounded me" (Jonah 2:3); and through the Lord it says: "the rain came down; the rivers were present; the winds came; yet they did not overthrow the house founded on the rock." (Matt. …
Western Saints
Bede
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, etc. The flood signifies the onslaught of persecutors. Hence it is said: Perhaps they would have swallowed us up alive, like water (Psalm CXXIII). Therefore, the Church, not only lifted up by the word of God but also driven by the force of persecutions, hastens to fly out of the world.
Victorinus of Pettau
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a flood, that he might carry her away with the flood." He signifies by the water which the serpent cast out of his mouth, the people who at his command would persecute her.
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