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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"For Your mercy is before my eyes" [Psalm 26:3]. For, that I be not consumed by that fire, not my merits, but Your mercy, whereby You have brought me on to such a life, is before my eyes. "And I have been pleasing in Your truth." And since my own falsehood has been displeasing to me, but Your truth pleasing, I have myself been pleasing also with it and in it.
Thomas Aquinas
Here he excuses himself in two ways for asking to be tried. First from his thought, because he thinks of God's mercy, when he says, "Because your mercy is before my eyes"; as if to say, I ask to be tried because I trust in your mercy, which always provides a way out with the temptation: Is. 63: "I will remember the mercies of the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things the Lord has rendered to me." Likewise from the love of justice. …
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