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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
For He shall let loose upon him, and not spare. Fleeing he shall flee out of His hand. God, as often as He chastens the sinner by smiting him, for this reason 'lets loose' the scourge, that He may 'spare.' But when by smiting He brings his life to an end whilst remaining in sin, He 'lets loose' the scourge, but never at all 'spares.' For the Same, Who 'let loose' the scourge that He might 'spare,' one day 'lets it loose' with this view that He may not spare. …
Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes, however, he is not killed by interior weakness, but by an exterior persecutor, and so he says, "He" (God) "will send," some persecutor, "on him," who is more powerful than he, whom he cannot resist, "and he (the persecutor) will not spare him." "He" (the evil man) "will flee from his hand," from his power, "and escape," either by flight or by death because, "after he has died, he has nothing more to do." (Luke 12:4)
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