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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then shall the just answer, saying. Here is set forth a mental response. It belongs to good minds to consider what they do for God's sake as small; Luke 17:10: when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: we are unprofitable servants. And Romans 8:18: I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us. …
Rabanus Maurus
Lord, when sate we thee &c. This they say not because they distrust the Lord's words, but they are in amaze at so great exaltation, and at the greatness of their own glory; or because the good which they have done will seem to them to be so small according to that of the Apostle, For the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us. (Rom. 8:18.)
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