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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"They who trouble me cast me in the teeth." Again that voice! "While they say daily unto me, Where is your God?" [Psalm 42:10]. And it is principally in the temptations of the Church they say this, "Where is your God?" How much was this cast in the teeth of the Martyrs! Those men so patient and courageous for the name of Christ, how often was it said to them, "Where is your God?" "Let Him deliver you, if He can." For men saw their torments outwardly; they did not inwardly behold their crowns! …
Thomas Aquinas
The cause of the sorrow or its effect is "while my bones are broken." The bones of the Church are the strong ones, such as prelates and perfect men. And sometimes through temporal adversaries, sometimes through temptations, they are afflicted. Ps. 22: "They have numbered all my bones." In every man, each virtue is like a certain bone; and if it happens that the just chaste man falls, his bone is broken. "They have reproached." Here he treats of the cause of the sadness he suffers from injurious words. …
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