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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"And the shadow of death has covered us" [Psalm 44:19]. For this mortality of ours is but the "shadow" of death. The true death is condemnation with the devil.
Thomas Aquinas
"Because." Above, the Psalmist set forth the evils that the saints suffer, and their constancy; here, however, he gives the reason for what has been said. And this can be connected with the preceding in two ways, according to the two senses stated, at "You have turned aside our steps," that is, the ways by which we seek the things of the flesh. …
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