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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
How the oppressor has ceased: the tribute has ceased! This is the lamentation with which the people of Israel bewail themselves: 'How the Lord has become weak and powerless, the conqueror of the nations who once plundered everything!'
Thomas Aquinas
You shall take up this parable, that is, a sermon of similitudes, which says one thing and signifies another: for the things spoken of in the parable signify the condition of Nabuchodonosor, as to his power, his fault and his punishment, because of which these things could have happened, even if they did not happen: against the king of Babylon; in that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody (Mic 2:4); shall not all these take up a parable against him? (Hab 2:6). …
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