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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Your most beautiful men will fall by the sword, and your strong men in battle. For the most beautiful men, they are interpreted as seventy, and your most beautiful son, whom you love, will fall by the sword. But if we understand about the state of the soul, which after virtues has sinned, let us accept the good works, which have fallen by the enemy sword, as the most beautiful son of his. …
Thomas Aquinas
128. Your fairest men. Here he takes away the comfort of men from them as to four things. Women delight in the beauty of men, and as to this, he says: your fairest men also shall fall by the sword: her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire (Lam 4:7). Second, in their fortitude, and as to this, he says, and your valiant ones, below: they have led away the strong ones thereof into captivity (Isa 23:13).
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