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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 13. If I wait, hell is mine house; and I have made my bed in the darkness. For the former Saints could undergo adversity, and yet could not, when brought out of the body, be at once freed from the regions of hell; in that He had not yet come, Who should descend thereinto without sin, that He might set free those, who were there bound by right of sin. …
Thomas Aquinas
But since Eliphaz had invited him to tolerate all his adversities patiently from future expectation, he shows as a consequence what seems to be left to him in the future on the part of temporal things. So he says, "If I am patient," that is patiently bear all such pains, nothing remains for me but the dwelling of the grave, and he expresses this saying, "my home is in the lower regions." He calls the grave the lower regions according to the opinion of those against whom he is disputing, who did not believe that the soul of man …
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