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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"And the Lord has thundered from heaven" [Psalm 18:13]. And in confidence of the Gospel the Lord has sounded forth from the heart of the just One. "And the Highest gave His voice;" that we might entertain it, and in the depth of human things, might hear things heavenly.
Thomas Aquinas
Here he treats of the third change. And first, of thunder. Second, of lightning, at "he sent his arrows." It should be known that the Psalmist speaks here according to this likeness: that whatever happens in the sky is attributed to God. Hence he takes the sound heard in the sky as though it were the voice of God. Now there is a twofold sound in the sky. One is thunder; and this, although some say it is the extinction of fire in a cloud, the Psalmist rejects and says it is produced by the clash of winds -- and so also are the clouds. …
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