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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
People persecute us, but God does not abandon us. For this is permitted so that we may be exercised in struggle, not so that we may fall. The adversaries, he says, strike us down in body and in outward things, but we do not perish; we are of good courage and enjoy steadfastness of spirit, and in this we preserve, with the help of God, the body itself.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But this is not all, for along with this we are disquieted: persecuted, namely, from place to place: "When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next" (Matt. 10:23), but not forsaken by God, because he offers help: "I will never fail you nor forsake you" (Heb. 13:5); "You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you" (Ps. 9:10). …
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