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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 17. Thou hast sealed up as it were in a bag my transgressions; but Thou hast healed mine iniquity. Our 'transgressions are sealed up as it were in a bag,' in that that thing which we ourselves do in outward act, except we wash away by penance in the mean while, is kept in the secresy of God's judgments under a kind of hiding, that one day it may also come forth out of the bag of secresy into the publicity of the Judgment. Hence it is said by Moses too; Is not this laid up in store with Me, and sealed up among My treasures? …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, divine providence is attentive to human acts in that he preserves the good and wicked deeds of men in his memory to repay them with good or evil, and so he continues, "You have sealed my faults in a sack." For what one seals in a sack is carefully kept. Lest anyone say this sealing excludes divine mercy he then says, "But you cured my iniquity," as if to say: You lay up punishments for sins in such a way that you nevertheless cure my faults by penance.
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