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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"He shall enter even unto the generations of his fathers" (ver. 19): that is, he shall imitate his fathers. For the unrighteous, that now are, have brothers, have fathers. Unrighteous men of old, are the fathers of the present; and they that are now unrighteous, are the fathers of unrighteous posterity: just as the fathers of the righteous, the righteous of old, are the fathers of the righteous that now are; and they that now are, are the fathers of them that are to be. …
Thomas Aquinas
"He shall enter." Here he sets forth the failure of spiritual goods. And first he shows the failure; second, he sets forth the order of arriving at this failure, at "Man." And first he sets forth the failure of guilt; second, of punishment. With respect to the first he says, "He shall enter," namely this sinner, so rich and whom all praise while it is well with him -- he shall enter, I say, "even to the generation of his fathers," namely by imitation, since he performs all the evils that his entire lineage committed. Mt. …
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