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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Woe to you, O land, whose king acts as an adolescent, and whose ministers dine in the morning. Happy are you, O land, whose king is a man of dignity, and whose ministers dine at the proper time- in strength and not in drunkenness. "He seems in fact here to reprove the young king and to condemn indulgent judges, which in another place has been called wisdom that is weakened by age, and even in other places mature age which is made frail by pleasure. …
Bonaventure
He gave the remedy against the disorder that arises from a wicked and foolish prelate: here thirdly he gives the remedy against the disorder that arises from a useless and lax prelate. He shows therefore that such a slothful and carnal person ought not to be set over others nor even tolerated. And this part has two sections: because first he denounces him, showing him unworthy of prelacy; second, he says that one ought not secretly to detract from him, at: In your thought, etc. …
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