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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
My righteousness, which I began to hold fast, I will not abandon. For neither doth mine heart reproach me in all my life. For 'his righteousness' that he had 'begun with,' he would 'abandon,' if he went out of the way into the praising of persons committing sin. But because we then more truly keep away from the sins of others when we first keep ourselves safe from our own, why he is so afraid to be guilty touching those, he gives the grounds of the principle, when he adds; For neither doth mine heart reproach me in all my life. …
Thomas Aquinas
As I do not propose to change from innocence to harm, so I do not propose to desert the way of justice, and so he says, "My justification," which pertains to the execution of justice, "which I held in the beginning," by not approving a man for the prosperity which he has nor condemning him for the adversity which he suffers in this life, "I will not desert," in deviating to your opinion. …
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