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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Dost thou know when God commanded the rains to shew forth the light of His clouds? If 'clouds' are holy preachers, the rains from the clouds are the words of their preaching. But when clouds fly through the air, unless rain descends from above, we know not what an immensity of waters they carry. Unless the glittering sun breaks forth amidst the rain, we cannot understand, what brightness also is concealed within them. …
Thomas Aquinas
Among those wonderful things he begins with the rains. Men perceive them sensibly, but science still cannot understand their first origin by which God brought them into being and so he says, "Do you know when God commanded the rains," which falls upon the earth by divine decree? After it has fallen, the air, which was first dark from the density of the clouds becomes bright by rarefaction. So he says, "and they," i.e. …
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