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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Descend, sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground, there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. Take a millstone and grind flour: uncover your nakedness, uncover your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the rivers. Your shame will be exposed, and your disgrace will be seen; I will take vengeance, and no one will be able to resist me. 70: Descend, sit on the ground, virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground. …
Thomas Aquinas
Come down, sit. Here he foretells the degradation of the kingdom of Babylon. And concerning this, he does three things: first, he threatens the punishment of degradation; second, he shows their fault: I was angry (Isa 47:6); third, he removes their confidence of escape: let now the astrologers (Isa 47:13). Concerning the first, he does three things. …
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