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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
The daughter of Zion will be abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field. The vineyard, which is called the whole of Israel, is testified to by the Prophet in the following, saying: 'The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel; and the man of Judah, a new plant and beloved' (below chapter 5, verse 7); and in the Psalm: 'You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it' (Psalm 80:9). …
Thomas Aquinas
Third, as to the captivity of men: hence he says, the daughter of Zion shall be left, that is, Jerusalem or the temple, from which came the protection of the whole province, as it was solitary and as a covert in a vineyard after the harvest, below: for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Judah, his pleasant plant (Isa 5:7); as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, after the last fruits have been collected, through which he signifies their fathers: I saw their fathers like the first fruits of the fig …
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