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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
They were ready to expose him [Joseph] to death, or to sorrow, or to slavery—to the uttermost ills. But the overruling God used the wickedness of the conspirators for the trial and approval of him who was sold and betrayed. In order that this result may not be thought to arise from any casual coincidence or accidental revolution of things, God, by means of the very men who opposed it, brought to pass the very result which they opposed, using His enemies for the approval of His servants, in order that you may learn, that what God has …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
For the Lord of hosts. Here he shows the support of the divine purpose, both as to the decree of wisdom: he has decreed, and as to the fulfillment of power: and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away? He is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul has desired, that has he done (Job 23:13).
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