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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
If I despised any passing by, because he had no covering, and a poor man without clothing, if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep. Because he did not despise the poor, he displayed the virtue of humility; and because he covered him, of pitifulness. …
Thomas Aquinas
There are usually two obstructions to mercy. One is the contempt of the poor whom one judges not worthy of mercy. One usually despises those who dress in poor clothes and honors those who dress in rich clothes, as Sirach says, "the clothes of the body reveal the man." (19:27) But he excludes this obstacle to mercy from himself saying, "If I despised the man passing by," any stranger passing by on the road, "and the poor," someone I know, because he was "without covering," he implies here: Let these and other consequences happen to me.
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