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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"You are My God," "depart not from Me; for trouble is hard at hand" [Psalm 22:11]. You are, therefore, My God, depart not from Me; for trouble is near unto Me; for it is in My body. "For there is none to help." For who helps, if Thou helpest not?
Thomas Aquinas
"For." This, according to Jerome, is the beginning of the following verse; and therefore it can, as was said, be suitably read with the preceding text, and also with what follows. And as Jerome says, it is more suitably read with what follows. For the Psalm, expounding the passion in the person of the Lord, first sets forth a prayer, and then follows the order of the passion, at "They have surrounded me," etc. Regarding the first, he does two things. First, he proposes the prayer. …
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