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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Turn not away Your face from me" [Psalm 27:9]: that I may find what I seek. "Turn not aside in anger from Your servant:" lest, while seeking You, I fall in with somewhat else. For what is more grievous than this punishment to one who loves and seeks the truth of Your countenance? "Be Thou my Helper." How shall I find it, if Thou help me not? "Leave me not, neither despise me, O God my Saviour." Scorn not that a mortal dares to seek the Eternal; for Thou, God, dost heal the wound of my sin.
Thomas Aquinas
"Do not turn away." Here he proposes a threefold petition. And first he asks not to be deprived of the thing desired. Second, he asks that the cause by which he could be deprived be removed. Third, he asks to be directed on the way, at "Establish a law." He says therefore, "Your face, O Lord, I will seek." And I pray, "Do not turn your face from me"; as if to say, as a man turns away from a man when he does not wish to hear him. But it is otherwise in God than in man. For a man who turns his face away changes. …
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