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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
He who endeavors to amend the faults of human weakness ought to bear this very weakness on his own shoulders, let it weigh upon himself, not cast it off. For we read that the Shepherd in the Gospel carried the weary sheep and did not cast it off. And Solomon says, "Be not overmuch righteous," for restraint should temper righteousness. For how shall he offer himself to you for healing whom you despise, who thinks that he will be an object of contempt, not of compassion, to his physician?
Jerome
"Do not be too righteous, do not make yourself too wise: why destroy yourself? "If you should see a man who is harsh and wild to the extent of sinning against his brothers, so that he pardons neither the sinner in his speaking, or he who is slow on account of natural slowness, know that this man is more righteous than is good. For when the Saviour teaches, saying "Do not judge, so that you are not judged" [Luc. …
Bonaventure
Here is noted the second instruction in which he forbids the headlong rush of impiety: for impiety renders a man stupefied in feeling and hardened. Therefore he says: "Be not stupefied": Jeremiah 31: "Everyone who eats a sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge." It renders one cruel in deed: therefore he says: "Do not act impiously overmuch," that is, cruelly: Psalm: "I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly": and Sirach 7: "Do not sow evil in the furrows of injustice, and you shall not reap it sevenfold." It also renders the …
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