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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
When God bloweth, the ice congeals. And the waters are again poured forth abundantly. Because, as the Holy Spirit breathed on the hearts of the faithful, and conferred greater miracles of power, benumbing envy grew up the more in the sluggish hearts of the faithless; and the unbelieving multitude became hardened against God, from the same causes, as the humble people softened the obduracy, with which it had bound itself. …
Thomas Aquinas
He attributes this to divine wisdom saying "By the breath of God, ice increases," as if to say: When he causes the wind by blowing, the north wind, which causes the icy chill, arises. "And again," from the breath of God which causes the south wind "very broad," that is, very abundant, "waters flow." These are the rains which are caused by the south wind.
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