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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
And what follows? "Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seek after my soul" (ver. 4): for to this end they seek after it, to destroy it. For I would that they would seek it for good! for in another Psalm he blameth this in men, that there was none who would seek after his soul: "Refuge failed me: there was none that would seek after my soul." Who is this that saith, "There was none that would seek after my soul"? …
Thomas Aquinas
Consequently, when he says, "Let them be confounded," he treats the condemnation of those who harm. And first, he asks for their condemnation. Second, he adduces a comparison, at "let them be as dust," etc. Regarding the first, he asks for two things in condemnation against the two things which wicked persecutors intend. For principally they intend to destroy him completely: Ps. …
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