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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
His arrows are sharp, and all his bows are drawn tight. The hooves of his horses are like flint, and his chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. His roar is like that of a lion, he will roar like a lion's cubs. He will growl, and seize his prey, and embrace it, and no one will rescue it. The multitude of archers, the troops of horsemen, the fervor of chariots and quadrigas, is compared to the roar of a lion, which came not so much to fight as to plunder and devour.
Thomas Aquinas
200. Their arrows are sharp. Here he shows that they are armed for fighting. And first, as to the goodness of their arms; and he sets out the arms that are customary in those lands: their arrows are sharp, in which the goodness of their arrows is noted; their bows are bent, in which the preparation of their arms is noted, lest they be impeded by preparing: the sharp arrows of the mighty (Ps 119:4). …
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