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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Jerusalem
Isaiah lived almost [two] thousand years ago and saw Zion in a hut. The city was still standing, beautiful with public squares and clothed in honor; yet he says, "Zion shall be plowed like a field," foretelling what has been fulfilled in our day. Observe the exactness of the prophecy; for he said, "Daughter Zion will be left like a hut in a vineyard, like a shed in a melon patch." Now the place is full of melon patches.
Justin Martyr
And concerning its desolation, and that no one should be permitted to inhabit it, there was the following prophecy by Isaiah: "Their land is desolate, their enemies consume it before them, and none of them shall dwell therein." And that it is guarded by you lest any one dwell in it, and that death is decreed against a Jew apprehended entering it, you know very well.
Western Saints
Jerome
Your land is deserted; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your land before your eyes, and it is desolate like a hostile wasteland. These things were partially fulfilled under the Babylonians, with the temple being burned and Jerusalem being destroyed, when the Samaritans possessed the region of the ten tribes, and the promised land was so desolate that it was ravaged by lions. …
Thomas Aquinas
37. Your land is desolate. Here he threatens punishment: and first, he sets out the judgment of the one who punishes; second, any solace of consolation, where it says, except the Lord of hosts had left us seed (Isa 1:9). He sets out a threefold punishment. First, as to the destruction of their possessions; hence he says, your land is desolate, as to the plains, which thus uncultivated will be as the desert, below: for briers and thorns shall be in all the land (Isa 7:24). …
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