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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
"Because the days will come upon you, and your enemies will surround you with a rampart; and they will encircle you, and hem you in on every side." For the Roman princes are indicated when it is said: "Because the days will come upon you, and your enemies will surround you with a rampart." Who are ever greater enemies of the human soul than the malignant spirits, who besiege it as it departs from the body, whom they nourished with deceitful pleasures while it was placed in love of the flesh? …
Bede
Because the days will come upon you, and your enemies will build an embankment around you. And they will surround you and hem you in on every side, and will level you to the ground, you and your children within you. This is also added: And they will not leave one stone upon another in you. The very migration of that city now testifies to this, since, whereas now it is built in that place where the Lord was crucified outside the gate, that former Jerusalem was utterly overthrown. …
Bonaventure
Third, as to the approaching destruction of the royal city, he adds: Because the days shall come upon you, and your enemies shall surround you with a rampart, through siege, according to that passage of Ezekiel four: "Take to yourself a brick, and you shall draw upon it the city of Jerusalem. And you shall set a siege against it and build fortifications and cast up a mound and set camps against it round about and place siege works," etc. …
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