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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
But if even so I be wicked, why, then, have I laboured in vain? For if we be examined pity set aside, our work which we look to have recompensed with a reward is deserving of punishment. 'Therefore the holy man shrinking under secret judgment, says, But if even so I be wicked, why, then, have I laboured in vain? Not that he repents of having laboured, but that it grieves him even amidst labours to be in uncertainty about the reward. …
Thomas Aquinas
"If however," after such great zeal for innocence, "I am so wicked," that I merit to be punished with such great punishments from God, "why have I labored in vain?" i.e. with such great anxiety to maintain my innocence? For he labors in vain who tends to an end by his labor which he does not attain.
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