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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low. "When the voice of the grinder is weak and the teaching of a tutor has stopped, then in turn all things will stop. Even the doors are closed in the streets, as according to the unwieldy virgins of the Gospel [Cfr. Matth. 25, 1-12.], and each one regards her doors as closed to her in the street, so that she can not buy oil. …
Bonaventure
Fifth, with respect to the immobilization of the lips for speaking, when he says: "And the doors shall be shut in the street": the doors are the lips, by which the gate of the mouth is closed. These doors are shut in the street when a man on account of old age cannot speak loudly so as to be heard by many; therefore he says: "In the lowness of voice of the grinders," that is, of those speaking softly: he says grinding means speaking, because, as a man moves his jaws for grinding food, so he moves his jaws and lips for pronouncing …
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