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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Did not He Who made me in the womb make him? And did not One make us in the womb? To persons possessed of power, the equality of creation kept in the thoughts is great goodness of humility. For all of us men are equal by nature, but it has been added by a distributive arrangement, that we should appear as set over particular persons. So then if we keep down from the imagination that thing which has accrued temporarily, we find out the sooner that which we are naturally. …
Thomas Aquinas
He proves as a consequence that all men naturally share the same condition, and so he says, "Did he not make me in the womb who also made him?" He means: I have the same soul created by God as my servants. My body has been formed also by the same divine power, and so he continues, "and did not one God" namely, the God who formed him, "form me in the womb?" So it is clear that it matters to God how I treat the other.
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