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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Let the enemy" therefore "persecute my soul and take it" (ver. 5). By again naming the enemy in the singular number, he more and more clearly points out him whom he spoke of above as a lion. For he persecutes the soul, and if he has deceived it, will take it. For the limit of men's rage is the destruction of the body; but the soul, after this visible death, they cannot keep in their power: whereas whatever souls the devil shall have taken by his persecutions, he will keep. …
Jerome
'Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it.' 'The last enemy, death, is destroyed.' 'And let him tread down my life into the earth.' Life cannot be trodden down. 'And let him bring down my glory into the dust.' 'If,' he says, 'I have rendered evils to my enemies for evils, may I not rise again.'
Thomas Aquinas
Next, when he says, "Let me fall," he determines the punishment that follows, as if to say: if these things I say are not true, let these things happen to me. And first he sets forth the loss of goods. Second, of person. Third, of glory. He says, therefore, regarding the first: let this evil befall me, namely, that I fall deservedly, that is, justly, before my enemies -- that is, let my goods be taken from me. …
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