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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Hast thou numbered the months of their conception? 44. For when holy men think of the improvement of their hearers, they bear already a conception, as it were, in their womb. But when they put off some things which ought to be said, and seek a season fit for their exhortations, they are detained, as it were, by a weary length of months, from that birth which they wish to take place. …
Thomas Aquinas
The first of these is to know the space of time in which the fetus is brought to term in the womb, and expressing this he says, "Have you numbered the months of their conception?", i.e., can you indicate to them when they must prepare themselves for giving birth? So he says, "and did you know the time of their giving birth," to tell them when they should give birth? …
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