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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Just as she who conceives, when she approaches childbirth, cries out in her pain: so have we become because of your presence, Lord. We have conceived and, as it were, given birth, and brought forth the spirit. LXX: And as a woman in labor draws near to childbirth, in her pain she cries out: so have we become ÷ your beloved, because of your fear, Lord. In the womb we have received, and as if giving birth, we have brought forth the spirit of your salvation, which we have made upon the earth. …
Thomas Aquinas
616. As a woman with child. Here he demonstrates the same thing from the experience among the Jews. And first, he sets out the scourge of tribulation: as a woman with child: a woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow (John 16:21); there were pains as of a woman in labor (Ps 47:7[48:6]). …
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