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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
They rest at mid-day amid the heaps of those that thirst with the winepresses being trodden. All those that persecute Holy Church, what else do they but 'tread the winepress?' Which is allowed to be by the Divine appointment, that the clusters of souls may flow out into spiritual wine, and being divested of the corruptible flesh run into the heavenly realms as into a receptacle. For whilst the unrighteous bear down the righteous, they as it were put clusters of the grape beneath their feet. …
Thomas Aquinas
If, perhaps, they seem to have a surplus in anything, they take that away not thinking what deep poverty they suffer in other things, and so he says, "Among these accumulations," of fruits, "they have taken a siesta," for they have rested at noon as though bloated on the goods of others, "and are thirsty even though they have tread the wine presses," who immediately after the gathering of the grapes have little wine.
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