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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Howl, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Lord. Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt, and be crushed. For the warriors of the Lord are coming to destroy all the earth, howl and repent, for punishment is coming. For the day of the Lord is near, the end of the world, and judgment, or the end of each person's life. For plunder comes from the Lord, which we call destruction, to keep the metaphor, because the warriors had been sent ahead. …
Thomas Aquinas
Howl. Here he describes the affliction of the punishment. And concerning this he sets out three things: first, the fear of those to be punished; second, the affliction: behold, the day (Isa 13:9); third, the ferocity of the punishers, behold I will stir up (Isa 13:17). And their fear is expressed, first, as to the groaning of the mouth: howl: howl, woe, woe to the day: for the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of groaning (Ezek 30:2–3).
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