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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there broke forth darkness. For the faithful people 'looks for good,' but receives evil, and it 'waits for light,' and meets with 'darkness,' because by the grace of the recompensing it hopes to be now already admitted to the joys of the Angels, and yet being delayed for a longer time here below, it is exposed to the hands of those that persecute it; and he who calculates to enjoy as quickly as possible the recompensing of the Light Eternal, is still forced …
Thomas Aquinas
In return for these works of mercy, "I expected good things," the prosperity of this world according to the opinion of his friends, "and evil things," adversities, "came to me" which clearly demonstrates that their opinion was false. "I waited for the light," the consolation or counsel by which I might escape from evil, "and the darkness" of bitterness and hesitation, "rushed in".
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