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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Then shalt thou abound with delicacies over the Almighty. To 'abound with delicacies over the Almighty' is in the love of Him to be filled to the full with the banquet of Holy Scripture. In Whose words surely we find as many delicacies, as for our profiting we obtain diversities of meaning, so that now the bare history should be our food, now, veiled under the text of the letter, the moral allegory refresh us from our inmost soul, and now to the deeper things contemplation should hold us suspended, already, in the darkness of the …
Thomas Aquinas
Lest he seems to only promise corporeal goods, he adds spiritual goods, among which he places first that man might love God and enjoy him, and so the text continues, "Then you will abound in the delights of the Almighty above," when you have peace with him you will delight in him. Since each man looks with pleasure on what he delights in he then says, "and you will raise your face up to God," so you can contemplate him often.
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