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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. For he would sin, if he were to desire that to be done by God, which he himself either could not at all be able to do, or if he could it would not be in any wise right. For they who assail an enemy with curses, what other thing do they wish God to do in his case, but what they are either unable or ashamed to do themselves? …
Thomas Aquinas
He then shows why he should shun this saying, "For I did not give my tongue to sin, waiting and cursing his soul." Truly man naturally desires those things which he enjoys, and he expresses his interior desire in words. Therefore, it follows that if someone should rejoice in someone else's evil, that he would desire it, and consequently, in cursing him, he would invoke evil on him.
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