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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a gift destroys the heart. "Now see the wise man as if regarding profit, according to that passage which says, "accuse the wise and he will love you" [Prov. 9, 8.]. Wise, or even having completed his training, he knows no accusation, and is perturbed by no disaster. We should use this verse if we see disaster befall a righteous and wise man, and he is perturbed by the unlawfulness of the judgement, and in that case when God does not come to his mind readily. …
Bonaventure
Here the second instruction is noted, in which perseverance is preferred to justice merely begun. On account of this he says: "Better is the end of a speech than its beginning": it is better to persevere in good than merely to begin: Matthew 10: "He who shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved"; whence Bernard says: "Perseverance is the consummation of all virtues." Here the third lesson is noted, in which patience is commended, because without it there cannot be constancy; therefore he says: "Better is the patient one than the …
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