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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cosmas Indicopleustes
In that day I was delivered till morning as to a lion, he did so break all my bones—from day even to night was I delivered over; meaning: In the time then of my sickness, I was delivered over to the fever as to a terrible lion that was crushing all my bones, so that, as it raged, I was tortured incessantly from morning till evening and from evening till day-dawn
Western Saints
Jerome
I hoped until morning; like a lion, it has crushed all my bones. From morning until evening you will finish me. In the morning, he says, you will finish me until evening: I hoped until morning: which Job also says he endured in his distress and bodily torments (Job IV), when in daylight he awaited night, and in darkness awaited light, thinking that the punishments could be changed by the shifting of seasons. …
Thomas Aquinas
776. Third, he laments his anxiety of heart. And first, as to the continual expectation of death: from morning, namely, I was speaking, even tonight you will make an end of me, in death. And then, not dying, I hoped, again, till morning, so that simultaneously with death the sorrow of sickness was ended; nonetheless, as a lion so has he, infirmity or God himself through the sorrow of sickness, broken all my bones: if I lie down to sleep, I shall say: when shall I rise? …
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