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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Want shall take hold of him like water; a tempest shall overwhelm him in the night. Let us look now at the want of the rich man as burning, whose abundance was so great as feasting. For he says, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. …
Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes even in this life he suddenly loses them in the way in which rain suddenly comes on a man, and so he says, "It will overtake him like the water," of the rain, "unexpectedly," because it comes suddenly upon him. Although the rain can be anticipated in the daytime in some way, yet at night it suddenly overtakes man, and so he says, "in the night the tempest" of adversity "will oppress him," will take him completely by surprise.
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