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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Hegesippus
The aforesaid Scribes and Pharisees therefore placed James upon the pinnacle of the temple, and cried out to him and said: 'You just one, in whom we ought all to have confidence, forasmuch as the people are led astray after Jesus, the crucified one, declare to us, what is the gate of Jesus.' And he answered with a loud voice, 'Why do you ask me concerning Jesus, the Son of Man? …
Memoirs (Book V), as quoted in Church History (Book II), Chapter 23, Sections 13-15 ↗
Western Saints
Jerome
Woe to their souls, for evil has been repaid to them. Speak to the righteous, for they are well, for they have eaten the fruit of their inventions. Woe to the wicked for evil, for the retribution of his hands will be upon him. According to the Hebrew and other interpreters, this is the meaning: Woe to them because they have received their own wickedness. …
Thomas Aquinas
112. And lest the punishment be supposed to envelop everyone, to this is added the justice of God in the separation of the good from the wicked; and concerning this, he does two things. First, he places the recompense of the good, saying, say to the just man, to any just man, that it is well, it will be for him, when the others are condemned, for the fruit, that is, his reward, he shall eat of his devices, as if taking the fruit of his good inventions. …
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