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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
I was likened to mire, and became like dust and ashes. Since in the judgment of lost sinners the Holy Church of the Elect is 'likened to mire,' because it is trodden under and despised in time; it is 'compared to dust and ashes,' because while they do not see her interior good things, they calculate that she has been brought to those bad things alone, which they see brought to view in her in the body. …
Thomas Aquinas
From the punishment of this kind he shows that he has become abominable to men, and so he says, "I have been made equal to filth," so that no one wants to approach me because of the great corruption and the number of the worms, as no one wishes to approach filth. "And I have become like dust and ashes," totally dejected and held in contempt.
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