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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
His flesh is consumed by punishments, let him return to the days of his youth. For when that first man fell from God, we were driven from the joys of Paradise, and were involved in the miseries of this mortal life; [Gen. 3, 23. 24.] and we feel, by the pain of our punishment, what a grievous fault we committed by the persuasion of the serpent. For having fallen into this state, we have found nothing, out of God, except affliction. …
Thomas Aquinas
Since Job had said, "My flesh is clothed with corruption," (7:5) as if he could not be restored, he excludes this saying, "His flesh has been consumed by punishments," as if to say: This is not injurious to my power, and so "let him return to the days of his youth," i.e. let him recover the strength like a young man.
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