Matthew 2:17
Douay-Rheims
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying:
John Chrysostom (attributed)
Or, it was heard on high, because uttered for the death of the innocent, according to that, The voice of the poor entereth into the heavens. (Ecclus. 35:21.) The ‘weeping’ means the cries of the children; ‘lamentation,’ refers to the mothers. In the infants themselves their death ends their cries, in the mothers it is continually renewed by the remembrance of their loss.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 2:17-18
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.