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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
See how he, as it were, gave life to fire. Just as an irritated beast does not calm down until it seizes someone and, having devoured them, appeases its fury, so too that fire, as though inflamed with zeal against the transgressors of God's commandments and raging on account of them, always devours whomever it seizes. For he did not say "ready to eat," but "to devour," evidently, forever. By "adversaries" he means not only unbelievers, but also believers who nevertheless act contrary to God's commandments.
Oecumenius
"and fiery anger." Just as that fiery, being pierced by some anger, consumes and devours those who are struck. He speaks of opposers, not only of the unbelievers, but also of those who act directly against the commandments of Christ.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
517. – Then when he says, but a fearful prospect of judgment, he frightens them with the expectation of God's judgment, in regard to which he does two things: first, he frightens them; secondly, he gives a reason (v. 28). 518. – Thus, therefore, it has been stated that no further sacrifice is left. What then? That which was stated above in chap. 9, namely, that after death comes the judgment: 'Know that there is a judgment' (Jb. 19:29). …
Bonaventure
The seventh judgment is in death, namely the judgment of condemnation. When a man dies in mortal sin, he is separated perpetually from eternal glory, and his soul is condemned to eternal fire until the end of the world, and then he will be punished also in body. Whence the Apostle says: "The expectation of judgment is terrible."
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