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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
He stretcheth out his hand to the flint; He overturneth the mountains by the roots. For 'he stretched out his hand to the flint,' because He put forth the arm of His preaching to the hardness of the Gentiles. Hence the same blessed Job, forewarned of the history of his suffering being destined to be made known to the Gentiles, says, Let these things be graven with an iron pen in a plate of lead, or hewn in the flint. …
Thomas Aquinas
Although these places are hidden from men, they are still not hidden from God who exercises his power in both the mountains and the rivers, and so he says, "To the flinty rock," the mountains made of rock, "he extends his hand," his power. He demonstrates this in two effects. First, by the fact that the mountains are sometimes completely leveled to the ground, and he expresses this by saying, "he overturns the mountains from their foothills."
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