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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And her gates will mourn and lament, and the city itself, desolate, will sit upon the earth. Which we see with our own eyes until this day. The interpretation according to tropology is easy, that whoever gives a place to the devil and does not keep their heart guarded with all vigilance, let their gates mourn: and in the absence of the bridegroom, let them always be in mourning, and falling from the heights, let them sit in the dust of the earth.
Thomas Aquinas
Third, delight in their dignity, and as to this, he says: her gates, that is, the judges sitting in the gates, shall lament, inwardly, and mourn, outwardly: her gates are destroyed in the ground: he has destroyed, and broken her bars, her king (Lam 2:9). Fourth, they delight in the joyfulness of men, and as to this, he says: and she shall sit desolate on the ground: he has made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long (Lam 1:13).
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