Thomas Aquinas

Here is considered the severity of a divine discipline, as the divine master teaches by hard lessons. This severity is done within corrections. As expressed: "From on high he sent fire." That is from a loftiness of counsel, "he sent fire": as an affliction, or by which a city is literally burnt. Then, "into my bones": into our strengths, and fortifications. And, through heavy blows "he made it descend". As Isaiah declares: "and it will be sheer terror to understand the message" (Is 28:19). …

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