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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Hear, you who are far away, what I have done, and know the strength of my neighbors. Sinners are terrified in Zion, hypocrites are trembling. Who among you can dwell with devouring fire? Who among you can endure everlasting burnings? The one who walks in righteousness and speaks truth, who rejects greed by slander, and keeps his hands away from every gift, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil. …
Thomas Aquinas
722. Hear. Here he invites to the consideration of such a fact; and first, to the consideration of the magnitude of the liberating divine power; second, to the consideration of the fitness of the liberated, who, namely, were fit to be thus liberated by the Lord, where it says, which of you (Isa 33:14); third, to the consideration of the worthiness of the liberated city: look upon Zion the city of our solemnity (Isa 33:20). Concerning the first, he does two things. First, he invites to the consideration of the Lord's power: hear . . . …
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