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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"In stripes, in imprisonments, in tossings to and fro." Yet every one of these by itself was intolerable, the being scourged only, and being bound only, and being unable through persecution to remain fixed any where, (for this is "in tossings to and fro,") but when both all, and all at once, assail, consider what a soul they need. Then along with the things from without, he mentions those imposed by himself. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Beatings and imprisonments: see how many evils! Each of them in itself is exceedingly grievous. "In banishments," that is, in persecutions, when someone has no place to stop, being driven from place to place. Having spoken of external hardships, here he speaks of his own, which he voluntarily subjected himself to—labors, that is, the work of his own hands, by which he fed both himself and others, and at the same time kept vigil and fasted.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Thirdly, he shows in particular the material with which patience is concerned. First, with things that pertain to tribulations which are voluntary, and this as to the soul. Hence, he says, in calamities [distresses], namely of the heart, when we are so beset with tribulations that there is no way of escape: "Destitute, afflicted, ill-treated" (Heb. …
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