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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And the water of the sea shall dry up, and the river shall be desolate and dry, and the streams shall diminish and dry up the water-courses. The reed and the rush shall wither, the channel of the river shall be laid bare and all the irrigated seed shall dry up, wither, and not exist. It is natural that when captivity comes through the anger of God, his wrath shall be followed by pestilence, and all the elements shall rage against those who offend God. Where it is written in another Prophet (Jer. …
Thomas Aquinas
The destruction of the land he designates by the drought of the waters in which Egypt is well-endowed and rich; because the wrath of God goes before so that their waters are dried up and their animals die; or he speaks hyperbolically, as if to say: so great will be the tribulation that it will seem even to dry up the waters. Therefore, he sets out three things. First, the manner of the drought, the water of the sea shall be dried up: that is, shall be diminished, and the river, the Nile.
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