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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 14. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. What does this mean, that he said to corruption, Thou art my father; saving that every man descends from an already corrupted origin? and hence it is added, And to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister; in this way, viz. that we come into this world once from corruption itself, and along with corruption itself. …
Thomas Aquinas
As a man who takes his origin when he is born from his parents by reason of which he establishes an affinity with them, so after death, lying in the grave he is dissolved into corruption and maggots which are born from his body, and so he then says, "I have said to corruption: You are my father; and to the maggots, you are my mother, and my sister," as if to say: There will remain to me an affinity in the grave with no other temporal thing except corruption and maggots.
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