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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Lord, when will You look on? Rescue My Soul from their deceits, My Darling from the lions" [Psalm 35:17]. For to us the time is slow; and in our person is this said, "When will You look on?" that is, when shall we see vengeance upon those who insult us? When shall the Judge, overcome by weariness, hear the widow? [Luke 18:3] But our Judge, not from weariness, but from love, delays our salvation; from reason, not from need; not that He could not even now succour us, but that the number of us all may be filled up even to the end. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Lord, when will you look?" Above, the Psalmist, in the person of Christ or of a just man, showed the wickedness and pertinacity of persecutors; here he invokes God against both. And first, he asks for divine assistance; second, he shows the fruit of divine assistance, at "I will confess." Regarding the first, he does two things. …
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