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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Howl, O gate! Cry out, O city! Philisthaea is laid waste, all of it. For from the north comes smoke, and there is no escaping its horde. He calls the gate for those who are at the gate, and the city for the inhabitants of the city. He also directs his speech to the cities of the Philistines, saying that they should wail and mourn when Senacherib comes, and when the torrent ravages everything. For the Assyrian came under the reign of Hezekiah, and among other nations he devastated the Philistines. …
Thomas Aquinas
Howl. Here he threatens destruction by the Assyrians. And first, he threatens their destruction; second, the liberation of the Jews: and what shall be answered? (Isa 14:32). Concerning the first, he sets out three things. First, he threatens universal destruction: gate, that is, the judges sitting in the gates: a voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel (Jer 3:21); and the multitude of the enemy: smoke, stirred up by the multitude of the army on account of the dust, from the north, because of the …
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