from Writings on the Apocalypse FC Volume 144 (CUA Press, 2022)
translated and edited as a kind of anthology and commentary highlights
Author from ancient Church is
Gregory the Great (canonized saint, Pope from
590 - 604 C.E., originated a great literary corpus)
Homilies on Ezekiel Book I, section 8
On Revelation 17.15: The waters that
you saw are peoples.
In sacred Scripture it is the custom for "peoples"
to be designated by waters. And so, it said by John
(in Revelation to John) the waters are peoples.
So then, a people is designated by waters, because
in life it has the sound of the tumult of the flesh
and flows away each day by the downward course
of mortality.
[ page 72, translation & edited by Mark DelCogliano]
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