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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
This is the plan that I have devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all nations. For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? Some interpret this passage as a general prophecy against the entire world, and that the desolation of the cities of Babylon and Assyria are a type of the end of the world. …
Thomas Aquinas
Third, he places the divine purpose to destroy all peoples: this is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, to destroy it, as to deliberation; his hand, that is, his power, as to execution: take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand (Jer 25:15). Or the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, to protect it from the Assyrians; and this is the hand that is stretched out, which was destroyed. And thus the fruit of the punishment will be in all nations.
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