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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the washer's field. And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him. …
Thomas Aquinas
And it came to pass in the fourteenth year. Here he recounts, in the manner of a history, the destruction of the Assyrians. And first, he sets out the deeds of the history; second, certain things occasioned by the history: in those days Ezechias was sick even to death (ch. 38). The first of these is divided into two parts: first, the fault which Assyria committed against the Jews is set out; second, the punishment which they sustained from God, where it says, and the angel of the Lord went out (Isa 37:36). …
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