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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And it will sound over him in that day like the roaring of the sea: we will look to the land, and behold, darkness of distress, and the light is obscured by its shadow. And the shouting of the victorious army is likened to the waves of the sea. From which it should be noted whenever the sound of the sea is referred to in the Scriptures, what it signifies. …
Thomas Aquinas
202. Third, rigid domination, and they shall make a noise, with threats and terrors: behold a people comes from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth. They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea (Jer 6:22-23). 203. We shall look towards the land. Here he sets out their despair. And first, as to help from earth: we shall look towards the land, everywhere, and behold darkness, because everyone persecutes them. …
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