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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Athanasius of Alexandria
And when the prophet says concerning the creation, "That stretches forth the heavens alone," and when God says, "I only stretch out the heavens," it is made plain to everyone that in the "Only" is signified also the Word of the Only, in whom "all things were made" and without whom "was made not one thing." Therefore, if they were made through the Word, and yet he says, "Only," and together with that Only is understood the Son, through whom the heavens were made, so also then, if it is said, "One God," and "I Only," and "I the First," …
Western Saints
Jerome
Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, and your creator from the womb: I am the Lord, the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens alone, establishing the earth, with no one beside me. LXX: Thus says the Lord who redeemed you, and formed you from the womb. I am the Lord, who fills all things: I alone stretched out the heavens, and established the earth. …
Thomas Aquinas
Thus says the Lord. Here he promises the benefit of liberation to those who return to him. And concerning this he does two things. First, he shows the power of the liberator through the benefit which he conferred on them: your redeemer, from evils, and your maker, in good things, below: thus says the Lord, that formed me from the womb (Isa 49:5); as to the creatures, which he made: I am the Lord, that make all things: he makes the earth by his power (Jer 10:12).
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