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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
'Lest at any time he seize my soul like a lion.' This fits Saul, it does not fit Absalom. For how could he call Absalom a lion, of whom he says, 'Spare my boy Absalom'? If there he calls him a boy, and as it were a little child and one that knows nothing, how here does he proclaim him a lion? This, so far, according to the history. And there are many things that might be said, and the whole psalm can be interpreted historically in the person of Saul. …
Thomas Aquinas
He sets forth the reason for the petition when he says, "Lest he seize," etc.; as if to say: unless you come to my aid, Absalom will devour me like a lion. 2 Sam. 15: "Arise, let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from the face of Absalom." And above he says in the plural, "from all who persecute me"; here in the singular: "Lest he seize like a lion," because all are comprehended under one head -- the spiritual under the one Devil, the bodily under Absalom. Of the first, 1 Pet. …
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