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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
I praise wedlock, I praise marriage, but it is because they give me virgins. I gather the rose from the thorns, the gold from the earth, the pearl from the shell. "Does the plowman plow all day to sow?" Shall he not also enjoy the fruit of his labor? Wedlock is the more honored, the more what is born of it is loved. Why, mother, do you grudge your daughter her virginity? She has been reared on your milk, she has come from your womb, she has grown up in your bosom. Your watchful affection has kept her a virgin. …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, he sets out the consolation under the likeness of a farmer: shall the ploughman plough all the day, through which he shows three things, namely, the intention of God to punish like the ploughman, that they might bear fruit, to sow. Gith, a kind of legume similar to cumin.
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