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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, For this reason, an exhortation is brought forth from those things which were previously held in honor. …
Polycarp of Smyrna
"Wherefore, girding up your loins," "serve the Lord in fear" and truth, as those who have forsaken the vain, empty talk and error of the multitude, and "believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and gave Him glory," and a throne at His right hand. To Him all things in heaven and on earth are subject. Him every spirit serves. He comes as the Judge of the living and the dead. His blood will God require of those who do not believe in Him. …
Western Saints
Bede
Wherefore girding the loins of your mind, etc. Because it is promised to you, he says, that you shall see the revelation of Jesus Christ after this life, which angels now see, the greater the grace promised to you, the more diligently you ought to strive to be worthy to receive it. He girds the loins of his mind, who also restrains it from wandering thoughts. …
Bonaventure
From Christ is the fruit of grace. This fruit of grace is fourfold: it consists in steadying the soul through faith, blessing it through divine love, lifting it up through hope, curbing it through divine fear. Peter speaks of the second: "Therefore, having girded up the loins of your understanding, be sober and set your hope completely on that grace which is brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ." For sanctification consists in this, that virtues, which are the loins of the mind, are transformed in God.
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