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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"And man though he was in honour perceived not, he was compared to the beasts without sense, and was made like to them." ...They ought, on the contrary, to have made ready for themselves an eternal house in good works, to have made ready for themselves everlasting life, to have sent before them expenditure, to have followed their works, to have ministered to a needy companion, to have given to him with whom they were walking, not to have despised Christ covered with sores before their gate, who hath said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it …
Thomas Aquinas
"And man." Above, the Psalmist set forth the evils that threaten the wicked with respect to the loss of exterior goods; here, however, he sets forth those that threaten them from the corruption of interior goods. And concerning this he does two things. First, he proposes the evil of interior corruption. Second, he shows what follows from this evil, at "This is their way." It should be known that man is composed of a rational and a sensitive nature. According to his rational nature, man has a likeness to God and the Angels. Gen. …
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