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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
They have caused men to groan out of the cities. And the soul of the wounded crieth, and God suffereth him not to go unavenged. Whereas cities are so called from the people living together, by the designation of 'cities' the churches of the true faith are not unfitly represented, which being settled in the different parts of the world constitute one Catholic Church, in which all the faithful thinking what is right concerning God live together in harmony. …
Thomas Aquinas
Not only do they despoil men in exterior things, but they also injure them in their persons, and so he says, "In the cities they made men groan," since when some men have been injured, many of the citizens are disturbed. The very ones who have been injured wail, and so he says, "and the souls of the wounded will cry out, and God," from whom nothing is hidden of what is done in time, "does not allow them to escape unpunished." This would not be the case if he did not have care over human affairs.
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