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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
A strong and warrior man, judge and Prophet, and sorcerer, and elder. For the strong, which is only in Hebrew, both the Seventy translated as giant and strong, wanting the same person to be both giant and strong. About the strong it has been said above. But about the giant in a good sense, that is, about the Lord Savior, we read in the eighteenth psalm: He rejoiced as a giant to run his way: his going out is from the highest heaven, and his circuit reaches to the highest of it (Psalm XVIII, 8). But if we read, (Gen. …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, power consists in constancy of heart, and thus he says, the strong man, as far as it comes from the strength which is a power of the soul. Third, it consists in the exercise of the art of war, and thus he says, the man of war. 99. Wisdom is required for the exercise of judgment: because of which Solomon asked for wisdom from God: give therefore to your servant an understanding heart . . . to discern between good and evil (1 Kgs 3:9). …
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