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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
For what shall I do, when God riseth up to judge; and when He seeketh, what shall I answer Him? He who thinks on the Judge to come, is unceasingly day by day preparing the cases of his accounts for the better: he who views the Eternal Lord with trembling of heart, is forced to abate the rights of temporal lordship over those under him. For he considers well that it is nothing that he is set above others in time, when for the rendering account he is beneath Him, Who exercises dominion without end. …
Thomas Aquinas
He shows why he did not despise submitting to judgment with his servants saying, "When the Lord God rises up to judge me," that is, when he himself comes to judge, if I now despise his judgment, I would have no one in whose help or to whose counsel I could go for refuge. Nor would I even be able to rationally answer God in judgment, and so he says, "and when he questions," when he examines my deeds, "what will I answer him," what reason will I be able to give for not being willing to submit to judgment with my servants? …
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