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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and He hath removed mine hope like as with a tree torn away. The Church is, as it were, 'destroyed on every side,' and undone in her weak members, when those very ones that seemed strong, are brought to ruin; when 'the crown is taken away from the head,' i.e. …
Thomas Aquinas
He places third the loss of exterior things when he says, "He destroyed me on all sides," namely, when all my exterior goods are laid waste, "and I perish," while the adversity lasts, because there is no hope of recovery. So he then places, "and he has taken away my hope like an uprooted tree" for a tree has hope if its branches are cut off that it may grow again as long as its roots stay in the earth. But if its roots are torn out of the earth it must dry out and perish. …
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