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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And I said, how long, Lord? And he answered, until the cities are desolate and without inhabitant, and the houses are without people, and the land is left empty. And the Lord will remove men far away, and what was abandoned in the midst of the land will be multiplied. And even in it there will be a tenth, and it will be turned again to destruction, like a terebinth tree, and like an oak tree that sheds its leaves, the holy seed will be the stump that remains in it. …
Thomas Aquinas
229. And I said. Here the length of the sentence is set out. And first, the question of the prophet is set out: how long will they be blinded? How long shall the vision . . . be trodden under foot? (Dan 8:13); second, the answer of the Lord: and he said. And a twofold ending is set out: first, as to the punishment of the wicked, second as to the holiness of the good, where it says, a holy seed (Isa 6:13), as if to say: how long will those who are in filth be filthy? …
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