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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 26. And yet they shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. What wonder then if those persons for a moment run a course unlike in the prosperity and adversity of this world, who through the corruption of the flesh return alike to the earth? So that life alone is to be thought on, wherein together with the resurrection of the flesh there is the arrival at an unlike end of recompensing. …
Thomas Aquinas
Yet although men with equal merits are differentiated this way in life, at least after death one cannot maintain that their lot cannot be changed in these things which are different in the disposition of their bodies. For their bodies are disposed equally after death, and so he says, "And yet they will sleep in the dust in the same way," because they will be buried in the earth equally, "and worms will cover them," for their bodies will decay in the same way. …
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