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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Deliver me not up unto the souls of them that trouble me" [Psalm 27:12]. Suffer not them that trouble me to be satiated with my evils. "For unrighteous witnesses have risen up against me." For there have risen up against me they that speak falsely of me, to remove and call me back from You, as if I seek glory of men. "And iniquity has lied unto itself." Therefore iniquity has been pleased with its own lie. For me it has not moved, to whom because of this there has been promised a greater reward in heaven.
Thomas Aquinas
"Do not hand me over." Here he explains what has been said; and he says two things. First, he asks to be freed from the danger of enemies. Second, he shows that he has enemies, at "For they have risen up." He says therefore, "Do not hand me over to the souls of those who trouble me"; as if to say, I ask to be so directed on the way that I do not fall into the power of enemies. And he does not say "into their hands," but "into their souls," that is, into their wills. …
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