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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Look on all the proud, and confound them, and tread down the wicked in their place. 11. Thou understandest, As I. For the proud are confounded at the look of the Lord, either here, by His mercy, when acknowledging and condemning their faults, or there, by suffering punishments from His justice. But pride itself is the place of the wicked; for, since it is written, Pride is the beginning of all sin, [Ecclus. 10, 13] it is comprised in that place, whence impiety arises; although impiety hardly differs from pride. …
Thomas Aquinas
The first punishment common to both of these types of proud men is confusion. Since when they could not attain the height to which they pretended, they are apparently confounded by their failure, and so he says, "Consider all the proud and confound them," and he also said already, "If his pride should ascend up to heaven, he will be thrown out like dung in the end." (20:6) The second punishment is their destruction, which he shows saying, "and destroy the wicked in their place." He calls the proud wicked because, as Sirach says, "The …
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