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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers. She hath laboured in vain, no fear compelling her. [MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION] 39. It despises, as though they were not its own, those whom it discovers to be living otherwise than it has itself taught, and, as its cruelty becomes obdurate, it applies terrors, and exercises itself in torturing them, and, inflamed by the firebrands of envy, it labours that they should perish, for whom it laboured not that they should live. …
Thomas Aquinas
Just as she does not care to guard her eggs, so she does not care to nourish her young, and so he says, "She deals cruelly with her young as if they are not hers," because she takes no care for their nutrition, so, as far as she is concerned, she loses the fruit of generation, and so he says, "she labored in vain," by conceiving and bringing to birth, because she does not nourish her young. …
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