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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Behold, I have found this, says the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account. Which still my soul seeks, but I have not found it. I have found one man among a thousand, but one woman among all those I have not found. Only this have I found: that God has made man righteous, but he has sought out many inventions. "He says, "I found this", teaching all things diligently, that by sinning little by little, and adding one crime on top of another, we amass a great number of sins for ourselves. …
Bonaventure
Therefore he says: "One man out of a thousand I have found, and a woman out of all I have not found": it is a hyperbole, and he means to say that he found very few men in whom concupiscence did not reign: but he himself found no women: nor is this surprising, because Sirach 25: "All wickedness is short compared to the wickedness of a woman." We could, however, expound this of Christ, who alone escaped from the corruption of original concupiscence, who alone was "free among the dead." Likewise there is a doubt concerning what he says: …
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