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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
His spies, blind all, knew nothing: mute dogs unable to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping, and loving dreams. LXX: See that all are blind: they all do not know, mute dogs cannot bark: dreaming of a bed, loving sleep. That all, he says, beasts should come forth from the forest, and devour those gathered together, whether they succeed into the place of the Jews, the crowd of the Gentiles, their spies are in fact the Scribes and Pharisees: because all the blind have not known the Lord Savior, nor did they want to see the present light. …
Gregory the Dialogist
Sometimes in sacred speech preachers are understood by dogs. For the tongue of a dog, when it licks a wound, heals it, because holy teachers too, when they instruct us in the confession of our sin, touch as it were the wound of the mind through their tongue; and because by speaking they rescue us from sins, by touching wounds as it were they restore us to health. …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, he sets out the fault. And first, that of the superiors as to their lack in governing and in foreseeing dangers: his watchmen, for superiors are set over the people to guard them against dangers like a watchman guards against enemies; they are ignorant, unable to foresee dangers: let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind (Matt 15:14); in the correction of vices: all dumb dogs not able to bark, against vices: but I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth (Ps 37:14[38:13]); in …
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