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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Man is powerless over the spirit-to restrain the spirit; nor is there authority over the day of death; nor discharge in war; and wickedness cannot save the wrong-doer. "Our mind does not have the power to prevent the spirit from being taken from us, and when the spirit leaves to the realm of God, it helps nothing to shut out mouth and hold in our fleeting life. And when we are dead, the enemy of our life will come and we are not able to take any rest. …
Bonaventure
Neither can it be prevented, whence he says: Nor is it in man's dominion, that is, power, to prevent the spirit, namely from departing, because no one can prevent the time of death from coming. And he explains this by adding: Nor does he have power in the day of death; Job 14: "You have appointed his limits, which cannot be passed." It cannot be avoided: whence he says: Nor is one permitted to rest, when war presses in, namely on the day of judgment; Wisdom 5: "The whole world shall fight for him against the senseless." Which war the …
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