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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
That it should fill the pathless and desolate land, and should produce green herbs. For the Gentile world, to which a way was not open for the word of God, was a long while pathless. For on the coming of our Redeemer it so received the calling of grace, as that there had not been in it before the way of Prophecy. It is also rightly called desolate; namely, as being destitute of either the wisdom of counsel, or of the fruit of good works. …
Thomas Aquinas
Because of this God ordered that the clouds and the rains be set in motion by the winds so that it might rain even in desert places, and so he says, "to rain on," with rains, "the steppes," that is the land which no man can cross, "and the desolate earth," destitute of human care. So only by divine care alone, "to produce green plants," to beautify the earth and give pasture to wild animals which are also managed by divine providence.
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