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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
There is also another type of consolation for those who have paid heavy penalties, as it is written in the book of Isaiah: 'Comfort, comfort my people,' says the Lord. 'Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.' Even if faith was lacking, punishment was satisfied. The penalties are mitigated for those who are acquitted by commendation of their merits.
Thomas Aquinas
He orders the prophets and priests to announce comfort: speak to the heart, namely, by comforting, and call them from sadness, from idolatry: I will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart (Hos 2:14). He assigns the reason as to the remission of their fault: for her evil is come to an end, above: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away (Isa 27:9); as to the end of punishments: she has received; he speaks according to the time after the captivity: with a double destruction (Jer 17:18). …
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