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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
I was a father of the poor, and the cause, which I knew not, I searched out. [HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION] For very often men give much to the poor, not because they love those poor, but because if they do not give, they dread the indignation of the Judge Above; which persons, if they were not afraid of God, would have had no mind to give the things they possess. …
Thomas Aquinas
He also cared for those who were defenseless, and so he says, "I was a father to the poor," for I protected and supported them. Sometimes there are those who wound the poor, the powerless, and the simple calumniously by fraud. He shows a diligent interest against the calumnious process of evil men, and so he says, "And the case of which I was ignorant, I diligently investigated," so that there would lie no fraud hidden there.
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