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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
The Burden of Damascus. Symmachus and Theodotion, The Assumption of Damascus: LXX, The Word against Damascus, adding their own account of what they did in Moab at the beginning. We first read the name of Damascus in Genesis, who was a native of Abraham before Isaac, and he was considered the heir, unless he was born to Sarah by promise (Genesis 15). …
Thomas Aquinas
The burden of Damascus. Here he begins to threaten against those who prepared an occasion of sin for the people of God when, through trust in their help, they cared not to trust in God. And this is divided into two parts: in the first, he threatens against the Syrians, who brought help to the people of the ten tribes; in the second, against the Egyptians, who did so to the two tribes: woe to the land (ch. 18). …
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