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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
I have heard your prayer, above: at the voice of your cry (Isa 30:19). Second, he sets out the promise: behold I will add: you will add days to the days of the king (Ps 61:6).
Hippolytus of Rome
When Hezekiah, king of Judah, was still sick and weeping, there came an angel, and said to him: "I have seen thy tears, and I have heard thy voice. Behold, I add unto thy time fifteen years. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord: Behold, I turn back the shadow of the degrees of the house of thy father, by which the sun has gone down, the ten degrees by which the shadow has gone down," so that day be a day of thirty-two hours. For when the sun had run its course to the tenth hour, it returned again. …
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