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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Let it devour the beauty of his skin; and let the firstborn death consume his arms. 'The beauty of his skin' is temporal glory, which whereas it is coveted as an object without us, is retained as a beauty on the skin. But by the title of 'arms' works are not unfitly set forth, in that the work of the body is done by the arms. And what is death but sin, which kills the soul to the interior life? …
Thomas Aquinas
The goods of the body which hunger begins to weaken are totally consumed by death. The principal goods of the body are beauty and strength, and so he then says, "may his skin lose its beauty," because beauty regards exterior appearance, and "may the arms of that man," in which strength is especially found, "be consumed by a premature," i.e. early, "death", before the end of the natural span of life.
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