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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
That I might bear it upon my shoulder, and put it round me like a crown. To 'bear the book upon the shoulder,' is by practising to carry out Holy Scripture. And observe how orderly it is described both first as being 'carried on the shoulder,' and afterwards 'put round' him 'as a crown;' because, that is to say, the precepts of Sacred Revelation, if they be now borne in practice, afterwards set forth for us the crown of victory in the recompensing. …
Thomas Aquinas
If in the testimony of this book, by the certain manifestation of the truth I am also shown to be guilty, I want to endure the punishment, and so he says, "Let me carry it on my shoulders." If, however, after the truth has been manifested I appear worthy of praise, then let me receive the crown of reward, and so he then says, "and let it encircle me like a crown." In this he shows his desire that one who was condemned unjustly by his friends, be saved by the just judgment of God.
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