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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Until you are left like a bad ship on the top of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill. Jeremiah also writes that after those who had taken refuge in Egypt had been killed by the sword and famine, few remained who returned to Judah (Jeremiah 46). And just as if a ship is broken and its structure is dissolved, only a tree, which is called a mast, remains, and is set as a signal on the top of the mountain or on a high hill, so as a sign and a trace, hardly one or two remain, to demonstrate the power of God. …
Thomas Aquinas
Third, he threatens destruction: a thousand men, Egyptians, shall flee for fear of one, Chaldean, and for fear of five, Chaldeans, you, all you Jews, shall flee: how should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? (Deut 32:30); till you be left as the mast, as a sign to evade shipwreck, above: there shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreads its branches (Isa 6:13).
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