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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Let them not say in their heart, Aha, aha, so would we have it" [Psalm 35:25]; that is, We have done what we could, we have slain him, we have taken him away. "Let them not say:" show them that they have done nothing. "Let them not say, We have swallowed him up." Whence say those Martyrs, "If the Lord had not been on our side, then they had swallowed us up quick." What is, "had swallowed us up"? Had passed into their own body. For that you swallow up, which you pass into your own body. …
Thomas Aquinas
As to the second, he says, "let them not say in their hearts." Insult is done in two things, just as joy. For joy is either about present goods or about future goods. Similarly, insult is either about evils already done or about evils yet to be done. …
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