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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
But this man being troubled and made sad was praying, his eye being disturbed as it were on account of anger. But the anger of a brother if it shall have been inveterate is then hatred. Anger doth trouble the eye, hatred doth quench it: anger is a straw, hatred is a beam. …
Thomas Aquinas
"My heart was troubled." Here the magnitude of the tribulation is set forth with respect to three things: that it is close at hand, great, and efficacious. When someone wishes to exaggerate his pain, he says he has been struck to the heart. And therefore he says, "My heart was troubled within me"; as if to say: not in external things, but he is wounded to the very heart. Jer. 4: "My bowels are in pain." The tribulation is also great, because no evil among worldly things is as great as death. …
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