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What the Fathers say

Isaiah 32:9

Western Saints

Jerome

Women of wealth, rise up and listen to my voice: confident daughters, hear my words. After days and years, you will be troubled, O confident ones: for the harvest is complete, and there will be no more gathering. O women of wealth, be astounded, be troubled: strip yourselves and be ashamed. As Symmachus interpreted, expose yourselves: it continues. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Here he describes the persecution inflicted on them as to three things. First, as to the loss of fruits, stirring up attention: you women, who cry easily, rich, who have reason to cry from the ruin of their goods; or you women, that is, you feeble Jews: they that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches (Ps 48:7[49:6]).

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