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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 13. He hath compassed me about with His lances, He hath wounded my loins together, He hath not spared, and He hath poured out my bowels upon the ground. [MORAL INTERPRETATION] These particulars would seem to accord with blessed Job after the letter, in that it is said, He hath compassed me with His lances, He hath wounded my loins together, He hath not spared; if that were not added, which is not read as written about him, he hath poured out my bowels upon the ground. …
Thomas Aquinas
Here he describes the great number of his trials using three images. First, he shows that he was wounded exteriorly in his possessions saying, "He encompassed me about with his spears." For exterior things encircle us as something extrinsic to us. Thus a man is encompassed with the spears of adversity when he loses exterior goods. Second, he says that he is persecuted interiorly in the affliction of his person. …
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