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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And it will be for a sweet smell, a stench; and for a belt, a cord. The one repenting of sins speaks of the stench: My scars have putrefied and become corrupted from the face of my foolishness (Psalm 38:6). The Apostle commanded to gird the loins with a belt, saying: Stand with your loins girded in truth (Ephesians 6:14). And we read about the sinner: Each one is bound by the cords of their own sins (Proverbs 5:22). …
Thomas Aquinas
127. And instead of a sweet smell there shall be. Here, the adornments of lasciviousness having been taken away, he exchanges them for the care of misery. And first, as to that which is without, he says: instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench: for smell comes from without: his stench shall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up, because he has done proudly (Joel 2:20). Second, as to that which is around, he says, instead of a girdle, a cord: he looses the belt of kings, and girds their loins with a cord (Job 12:18). …
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