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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." For the trophy He Himself erected, but the crowns He hath caused us also to partake of. And this not of debt, but of mere mercy.
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Lord Jesus fought the contest, and to us the victory was given — not by merit, not by obligation, but by the grace and love of God the Father, Who made us victors through the contest of His Son.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
1022. – Therefore, because the sting of death is destroyed, not by the Law, but by the victory of Christ, acts of thanksgiving are rendered to God. And this is what he says: But thanks be to God, namely, I give thanks, or we give thanks, to the one who gives us the victory, over death and sin, through Jesus Christ, not through the Law: "And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith" (1 Jn. 5:4); "Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus our Lord!" (Rom. …
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