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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Who hath given a course for the most violent shower, and a way for the sounding thunder? If, as we said before, that persecution in the regions of Judaea is designated by the name of divided heat, because this very fierceness of persecution kept not from their office of preaching, through any fear, the holy preachers, who were assisted by the gift from on high, He fitly subjoins; Who hath given a course for the most violent showers? As if He were saying, Except Myself. …
Thomas Aquinas
Next he proceeds to certain aspects of the winds in the air, by which the rainstorm is caused when rain is driven on. So he says, "Who gave the course of the very violent rainstorm?" For the violent course of the rainstorm is caused by the strong impulse of the winds which divine power produces. Likewise, when clouds are set in motion from the winds, this causes thunderclaps, and that is why such a sound is not heard in one place, like the sound of some passing body, and so he says, "and the way of sound to thunder?"
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