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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Otherwise; Because He delayed the punishment of hell which He had threatened them with, He pronounces against them threats of present evil, saying, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But amen I say to you, that all these things shall come upon this generation. But how can it be that all these things come upon this generation? Is one punished for another? Ezekiel 18:20: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father. How then upon this generation? Jerome solves this by saying that it is customary in Scripture that the whole generation of the good is taken as one generation, of which Psalm 111:2 says: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. …
Glossa Ordinaria
He means not only those there present, but the whole generation before and after, for all were one city and one body of the Devil.
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