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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
They bow themselves for the birth, and bring forth, and utter roarings. 47. For they roar in truth, whilst by bending themselves down, they bring forth the souls of their hearers in the conversation of light; because they cannot release us from eternal punishments, except by tears and pain. For holy preachers sow in tears now, that they may afterwards reap a crop of joys. They are now like hinds in the pangs of bringing forth, that they may afterwards be fruitful in spiritual offspring. …
Thomas Aquinas
And so he says, "They crouch to bring forth their young," which they bring forth, "and give birth," by themselves instructed by nature. Still giving birth is not delightful, but painful for them, and so he says, "and they bring it forth roaring," because of the pain which they suffer in giving birth.
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