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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Then you will delight in the Lord [Vulg. the Lord); and I will lift you up above the heights of the earth, and I will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. LXX: And you will trust in the Lord: and he will exalt you above the good things of the earth, and he will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. …
Gregory the Dialogist
I used to strive daily to win my way outside the world, outside the flesh; to drive all phantasms of the body from the eyes of my soul, and to see incorporeally supernal joys; and not only with my voice but in the core of my heart I used to say, "My heart hath said unto Thee, I have sought Thy face, Thy face, Lord, will I seek." Moreover desiring nothing, fearing nothing, in this world, I seemed to myself to stand on a certain summit of things, so that I almost believed to be fulfilled in me what I had learnt of the Lord's promise …
Thomas Aquinas
Second, he sets out the fruit: then shall you be delighted in the Lord, as to spiritual goods; and I will lift you up above the high places of the earth, leading you back to your land, which is mountainous; and will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father, as to the enjoyment of the goods of the land: then shall you abound in delights in the Almighty (Job 22:26).
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