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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"What has been, already exists, and what is still to be, has already been, and God seeks him that suffers persecution." All things we perceive in the past, present or future, they themselves have been, are, and will be. That same sun which now rises, existed before we were in this world, and after we die, it will rise again. But we have mentioned the sun, so that we understand other things to be the same as they have been before. …
Bonaventure
And he shows this, because not even God himself diminishes or adds: whence he says: What has been made, that itself remains. Neither does he add: whence he infers: The things that shall be have already been, because similar things have preceded: whence he also says: And God restores what has passed away, because "the corruption of one thing is the generation of another"; above in chapter one: "There is nothing new under the sun, nor can anyone say: this is recent"; Genesis 2: "God rested on the seventh day."
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