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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Who carrying these same off from the valleys, when they found each of them, ran to them with clamour. Which persons if ever in sacred Revelation they seemingly discover things with sagacity, which while they do not understand, they fancy make for their statements, they directly scatter these vociferating them to their wretched hearers, whom they covet not the souls of but the substance. They 'carry them off from the valleys,' because with a high spirit they gather them from the lowly sayings of the Fathers. …
Thomas Aquinas
He consequently shows that they did not have an abundance of even such cheap food as this, and that they find it with great effort. He expresses this in the next verse, "They uproot these things from enclosed valleys," for they gather them with great difficulty because of the climb down and the climb up. He shows they gather this in small quantity when he says, "when they have found each of them," they contend over this vile food. He expresses this saying, "they ran to them shouting," so one can arrive before the other. …
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