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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
. In which way shall I strike you any longer, adding transgression? By this testimony we learn that the Lord strikes sinners in order to correct them, and that the punishment is not so much for retribution as for correction. The meaning is this: I cannot find any medicine that I can apply to your wounds; all your limbs are full of sores; I find no part of your body that has not been struck before. Or certainly in this way: I find no wounds by which I can break your stubbornness. …
Thomas Aquinas
34. For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? Here he shows the incorrigibility of their sin, removing a threefold mode of correction. First, that correction which is through a divine scourge, saying, for what, that is, to what end, you that increase, so that, namely, the greater the correction, the more you increase your sins: in vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction (Jer 2:30). …
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