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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
As by a wall being broken, and a door being opened, they rushed in upon me, and were rolled down to my miseries. What is in this place designated by the title of 'a wall,' but the Redeemer of the human race, concerning whom it is said by the Prophet for the edifying of Holy Church, There shall be set in her a wall and a bulwark? For that same Redeemer is 'a wall' to us, Who forbids the rushing of evil spirits to reach to our hearts. …
Thomas Aquinas
So he continues, "they rushed in upon me like a breached wall or an open gate," as though there had not been an obstacle, either from the substance itself, of difficulty which is meant by the breached wall, or from human concern, which is meant by the door. Moreover, those who rushed on me so freely showed no mercy, and so he says, "and they rushed in on my mishaps," for they totally intended to make me unhappy.
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