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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Turn Thou away Your face from my sins, and all mine iniquities blot out" [Psalm 51:9]. For now bones humbled exult, now with hyssop cleansed, humble I have become. "Turn Thou away Your face," not from me, but "from my sins." For in another place praying he says, "Turn not away Your face from me." He that would not that God's face be turned away from himself, would that God's face be turned away from his sins. For to sin, when God turns not Himself away, he adverts: if he adverts, he animadverts. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Turn away." Here he asks for the recovery of innocence. And because he considers that the evil of guilt is in him and the good of grace, he first asks for the removal of evil or sin; second, he asks for the removal of the effect of sin, at "Create in me a clean heart, O God." For sin is removed not in the sense that the sin never existed, but in the sense that the committed sin is not imputed to him for punishment, according to Ps. …
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