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What the Fathers say

Exodus 38:8

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

But then we truly preach right things to others if we show our words by deeds, if we ourselves are pierced with divine love, and wash with tears the daily stains of human life, which can in no way pass without fault. But then we are truly pierced with compunction about ourselves if we carefully consider the deeds of the fathers who went before, so that from beholding their glory, our own life may become vile in our own eyes. …

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 17 ↗

Bonaventure

This wisdom results from many mysteries of the Scriptures, as out of many mirrors there results a multiplication of light rays and fires. These are the "mirrors of the women" out of which "the bronze laver" was made; this is Scriptures, "with faces unveiled, reflecting as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, being transformed into His very image from glory to glory": from the clarity of allegory to the clarity of anagogy, and again to that of tropology.

Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 2 ↗