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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
LITERAL INTERPRETATION. They shall meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noonday as in the night. They 'meet with darkness in the day-time,' for in the very presence of Truth, they were blinded by the deceitfulness of unbelief. For we see clearly in the day-time, but in the night the pupil of our eye is dimmed. Therefore whilst the persecutors beheld the miracles of Divine Power, and yet doubted of His Divine Nature, they were subjected to 'darkness in the day-time,' for they lost their eyesight in the light. …
Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes not only are their cunning plans impeded in deed, but even their minds are clouded so that they do not discover better things in taking counsel. So he says, "They come upon darkness in the daytime," because in something which is clear, they are completely ignorant of what they are doing, "and grope at noonday like in the night," in things which are in no way doubtful, they hesitate as though they were obscure.
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