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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? In Holy Scripture 'teeth' are sometimes used to be understood for the holy preachers, and sometimes for the interior senses. Thus of the holy preachers it is said to the Bride, Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing. And hence it is said to one of them, when the Gentiles were represented to him in a figure, Kill and eat, i.e. 'crush their oldness, and convert it into the body of the Church, i.e. …
Thomas Aquinas
His friends have accused Job of two things: impatience and ostentation, (4:2 and 7) both of which he excludes from himself so that he might not seem in the following disputation to speak either from anger or from pride. Observe that impatience comes from an overabundance of sorrow not moderated by reason, for sorrow leads to despair when excessive. As a result of despair a man disregards the health of both his body and soul. …
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