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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Do not be exasperating, as the house is exasperating... Therefore, what he says is this: You should not imitate those whom you are sent to correct, lest you deserve a similar sin and punishment.
Gregory the Dialogist
"But you, son of man, hear whatever I speak to you, and do not be provoking, as the provoking house is." That is, do not yourself do the evil things which you see being done, lest you yourself commit what you were sent to prohibit. For every preacher must always consider with attentive mind, lest he who was sent to raise up the fallen should himself fall into wickedness of deed along with the fallen, and lest the sentence of Paul strike him who says: "In what you judge another, you condemn yourself." Whence Balaam, filled with the …
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