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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"And that because of your indignation and wrath: because you have taken me up, you have cast me down" [Psalm 102:10]. This is your wrath, O Lord, in Adam: that wrath in which we were all born, which cleaves unto us by our birth; the wrath from the stock of iniquity, the wrath from the mass of sin: according to what the Apostle says, "We also were once the children of wrath, even as others." For He says not, the wrath of God shall come upon him: but, "abides upon him:" because that wrath in which he was born is not taken away....Man …
Jerome
Because of the face of your wrath and indignation. And all these things I did, considering your coming and the judgment to come. Because lifting me up you have dashed me down. Let those say this who were once holy, and fell: for having been exalted in their virtues, afterward they fell. Since indeed the saints say: because lifting me up you held me.
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