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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Let the deceitful lips be made dumb" [Psalm 31:18]. In making known to the peoples Your mysteries wrought in me, strike with dumb amazement the lips of them that invent falsehood of me. "Which speak iniquity against the Righteous, in pride and contempt." Which speak iniquity against Christ, in their pride and contempt of Him as a crucified man.
Thomas Aquinas
Second, when he adds, "Who speak," he assigns a threefold sin of theirs, and especially of the mouth, which is aggravated by three things: namely, the person against whom it is said, what is said, and its root. As to the first he says, "Against the just one," which is worse than if against a sinner; as if to say, those lips will be struck dumb which now speak; concerning what they say, because they speak injustice and falsehood: Ps. …
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