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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
This, as I have said, is obscure: "shall possess the land and inhabit my holy mountain." After all, if we take it literally and materialistically, we won't be cleansing ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit; and God will have procured for us to no purpose the conjunction of the end of the reading from the prophet with the beginning of the reading from the apostle, if to possess some earthly mountain we start getting ourselves ready for avarice, not for godliness. Well, but what should we understand by the mountain? …
Jerome
And the wind will carry them away: the breeze will lift them. But those who have confidence in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain. And I will say, Make a way, offer a path, turn aside from the path, remove stumbling blocks from my people's way. LXX: For the wind will carry away all of them, and the tempest will take them away. But those who hope in me will possess the land and inherit my holy mountain, and they will say: Make his ways clean and remove stumbling blocks from my people's way. …
Thomas Aquinas
Your companies, gathered from various nations: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress (Deut 32:38). But he that puts his trust in me. Here he confirms the difference between the just and the unjust. And first, as to the just; second, as to the unjust, but the wicked are like the raging sea (Isa 57:20). He confirms the deliverance of the good from dangers from three things. …
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