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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"And You have girded me with strength to the war" [Psalm 18:39]. And the loose desires of my flesh have You bound up with strength, that in such a fight I may not be encumbered. "You have supplanted under me them that rose up against me." You have caused them to be deceived, who followed upon me, that they should be brought under me, who desired to be over me.
Thomas Aquinas
And all this is because "you have girded me." Here he treats of their total abandonment, and he commemorates two things. First, the divine benefit; second, their final destruction, at "and I will grind them," etc. And because the things he has said seem to pertain to his own glory, he therefore attributes them to God. …
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