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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Just as the first coming of the Lord was for the recreation and regeneration of our souls, so the second will be for the regeneration of our bodies. Since the souls died first, through disobedience, while the bodies actually underwent death nine hundred years after the disobedience, they too are regenerated and improved in sequence: the souls through the first coming, and the bodies through the second. …
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Having in what has gone before spoken against the reprobate, He now turns His words to the consolation of the elect; for it is added, When these things begin to be, look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh; as if he says, When the buffettings of the world multiply, lift up your heads, that is, rejoice your hearts, for when the world closes whose friends ye are not, the redemption is near which ye seek. …
Bede
When these things begin to take place, look up and lift your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. When the plagues, he says, of the world increase, when the terror of judgment is shown by the shaking of the powers, lift up your heads, that is, cheer up your hearts. Because as the world, to which you are not friends, is ending, the redemption you seek is near. In the holy Scripture, indeed, the head is often put for the mind. For just as the limbs are governed by the head, so thoughts are arranged by the mind. …
Bonaventure
But when these things begin to come to pass, etc. After he instructed the disciples unto foresight, here secondly he raises them up to confidence, and this indeed he does in three ways, namely by consoling exhortation, by guiding similitude, and by certified assertion. …
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