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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Bede
My vineyard is before me, etc. "Truly," he says, "you have been proven worthy because I have entrusted my vineyard to guardians, who would cultivate it with their words and examples alike. But you should know that I have entrusted its care to the same guardians in such a way that I, nonetheless, incessantly observe what is happening in it, with what spirit, with what industry each person works in it; I watch how many covert attacks, how many open conflicts it endures from adversaries. And what more? …
Robert of Tombelaine
His vineyard stands before him, because, the wicked farmers having been destroyed, he instructs the holy Church through good teachers with a benign regard. Who are these peaceful ones who are said to be a thousand and two hundred, unless those aforementioned silver coins, which when we perfectly let go of them, we acquire peace for ourselves with the saints through their distribution? …
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