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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people. For Judaea was unwilling that the true King should reign over it, and therefore obtained a hypocrite, as its merits demanded. As the Truth Itself says in the Gospel, I have come in My Fathers name, and ye received Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. …
Thomas Aquinas
There is another punishment of the multitude besides grief in which the dominion of tyrants afflicts them. He expresses this punishment saying, "And over people and all men," as if to say: He exercises his judgments through grief or oppression of tyrants not only in one nation, but also to everyone. He then says about the oppression of tyrants, "he makes a hypocrite reign because of the sins of the people," who are afflicted under his regime. In this he seems to answer the question which Job had proposed, "Why do the wicked live? …
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