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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
He calls the holy city "the church." It is sanctified not by the prescribed cultic system, for the law never perfected anyone, but it is made in the likeness of Christ and participates in his divine nature, according to the communication of the Holy Spirit, in whom we are sealed for the day of redemption, with all vileness washed and removed.… We have been justified by faith in him, who reinforces us in all safety and shelters us in his love from every fierce attack of the devil and wild surges of enemy opposition. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Arise, arise, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your garments of glory, O Jerusalem, holy city; for the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer pass through you. (Verse 1 according to the Septuagint) Rise up, rise up, O Zion; put on your strength, O Zion, and put on your glory, O Jerusalem, holy city. Never again will the uncircumcised and the unclean pass through you. Again, in this place the name Zion is added, as in the Septuagint above, and for this reason it has been slain with the spear. …
Thomas Aquinas
Arise, arise. Here he excludes the third impediment to their liberation, which could be doubted from their poverty of goods, promising them gratuitous liberation. And this is divided into two parts: for first, he foretells the liberation of the Jews from the Babylonians; second, the liberation of the gentiles from their sins: behold my servant shall understand (Isa 52:13). Concerning the first, he does two things: first, he foretells the liberation; second, the order of liberation: the Lord has prepared (Isa 52:10). …
Bonaventure
Just as the body is adorned by its garment, so the soul is adorned by fortitude; therefore it is called the clothing of the soul; nor is fortitude only the clothing of the soul, or of the glorious Virgin, but indeed of Mother Church. Whence Isaiah says: "Arise, arise, O daughter of Sion; put on the garments of thy glory." The discourse concerns the habit of fortitude, how we may be clothed with it. If we wish to describe fortitude rightly, we must note that it is from heaven.
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