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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
In the land of trouble and distress there will be a lioness and a lion: there will also be venomous snakes and flying serpents. They will carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people who cannot help them. Egypt will be useless and in vain for assistance. LXX: In trouble and distress there will be a lion and a lion's cub: then there will be asps and flying snake offspring. They will carry their riches on donkeys and camels to a nation that will not help them. …
Thomas Aquinas
670. Third, he describes the carrying away of goods: the burden of the beasts; he threatens first the destruction of Egypt. The burden, of the sons of Judah, beasts, because of their stupidity or because they bore their goods like beasts; of the south, because they fled to the south or because their dwelling was in the southern part. In a land of trouble, in Egypt, which in Hebrew is called "Meyrey," which is translated "trouble" or "distress": the sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt (Jer 42:16). …
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