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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. If we follow the history alone, it appears plain that the skin of the blessed man was blackened by the multitude of ulcers. But according to the mystery of allegory, 'the skin' of Holy Church is understood as her outer appearance. For in the time of persecution the exterior appearance of Holy Church is blackened, because she is seen by persecutors as vile and contemptible. …
Thomas Aquinas
His adversity was also partly the result of weakness of the body, and so first as to exterior infirmity he says, "My skin turned black on me," from the interior corruption of the humors. Then, as to the interior infirmities he continues, "and my bones dried out from the heat," so great an amount of inordinate heat rested on me that it dried up the marrow of bones.
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