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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
The earth from which bread arose, is overturned in its place by fire. But this Judaea which grows thus hardened, whether what she was for long, or what she underwent afterwards, let us listen to. Judaea was wont to give bread, in that she used to set before men the words of the Law. …
Thomas Aquinas
There are also some places which are inaccessible, not because of their location, but because of something extraordinary happening, for example, because they are ruined by some physical change, like Sodom and Gomorrah, (Gen. 19:24) and so he says, "The earth from which bread arose in its place, (as proper and fitting) has been destroyed by fire," for the cause of its destruction proceeds from a very great heat. …
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