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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Is it not good for man that he eats and drinks and shows his soul satisfaction in his labour? And even that, I perceived, is from the hand of God. For who should eat and who should make haste except me? To the man who pleases Him He has given wisdom, knowledge and joy; but to the sinner He has given the urge to gather and amass - that he may hand it on to one who is pleasing to God. …
Bonaventure
"Is it not better to eat and drink and to show his soul good things from his labors?" Supply: than to labor always continually: as if to say: it is better, that is, less evil, because the latter is an evil of guilt and punishment, the former is an evil of guilt, but has pleasantness: Isaiah 22: "Behold, joy and gladness, slaying rams" etc. And that it is better, he makes manifest: because this is a gift of God: whence he says: "And this is from the hand of God:" Jeremiah 5: "I filled them, and they committed adultery" etc.
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