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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And the lambs will be fed in their order: and the deserted places will be turned into abundance, and strangers will feast upon them. Instead of the lambs being fed in their order, which is understood in a positive sense, I do not know what the LXX, desiring something else, translated as 'they will be fed as plundered bulls'; understanding lambs as bulls, and again interpreting strangers as lambs. …
Thomas Aquinas
184. Fourth, against the species of gluttony which is "sumptuously," he sets out the devouring of their goods by their enemies: and the lambs shall feed, that is, they shall be consumed by your enemies, according to their order, for the better are first, as to animals; and as to products of the soil, strangers shall eat the deserts, that is, the fields deserted by you, turned into fruitfulness, that is, made more fertile: the Lord shall bring you, and your king, whom you shall have appointed over you, into a nation which you and your …
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