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What the Fathers say

Luke 23:30

Western Saints

Bonaventure

And with this understanding what follows is more consonant: Then they will begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us, and to the hills: Cover us. This will be at the appearance of the Judge, according to that passage in Revelation 6: "They hid themselves in caves and in the rocks of the mountains and say to the mountains and rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who sits upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come." And similarly Isaiah 2: "They will enter the clefts of …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 23 ↗