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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Arise, O Lord, help us" [Psalm 44:26]. And indeed, dearly beloved, He has arisen and helped us. For when he awoke (i.e. when He arose again, and became known to the Gentiles) on the cessation of persecutions, even those who had cleaved to the earth were raised up from the earth, and on performing penance, have been restored to Christ's body, feeble and imperfect though they were: so that in them was fulfilled the text, "Your eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect; and in Your book shall they all be written." "Arise, O Lord, …
Thomas Aquinas
Against his forgetting he says, "Help us." Against his sleeping he says, "Arise." Against the evils he says, "And redeem us for the sake of your name."
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