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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"O Lord, let me not be confounded, for I have called upon You" [Psalm 31:17]. O Lord, let me not be put to shame by those who insult me, for that I have called upon You. "Let the ungodly be ashamed, and be brought down to hell." Let them rather who call upon stones be ashamed, and made to dwell with darkness.
Thomas Aquinas
As to the second he says, "Let me not be confounded," that is, failing in your hope; or "let me not be confounded," that is, cheated of my hope. And this because "I have called upon you": Joel 2: "Everyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." "I have called upon you." The Gloss of Augustine says: you call upon God when you call God into yourself, when you invite him into the house of your heart, which must first be cleansed of all filth and deceit; otherwise you do not truly call upon him. …
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