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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
The archer shall not put him to flight. The stones of the sling are turned with him into stubble. 21. For what do we understand by 'arrows' but the words of preachers? For when they are drawn forth by the voice of holy livers, they transfix the hearts of the hearers. With these arrows Holy Church had been struck, who was saying, I am wounded with love. [Cant. 2, 5] Of these arrows it is said by the voice of the Psalmist, The arrows of children are made their wounds; [Ps. …
Thomas Aquinas
Man also attacks someone from a distance with arrows and stones launched by sling, but those weapons have no power against a whale either, and so he says, "The archer will not put him to flight," with a flight of arrows, which he does not fear because he cannot be wounded by them. Just as arrows discharged from far off wound someone internally, so stones from a sling wound him by bruising externally. …
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