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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Out of love God disciplines, then, those who were thoughtless.… They were made docile through their trials. He did this by delivering them into the hands of their enemies or by the affliction of other pains, just as fire and iron often heal a wound where medicine fails. In the same manner our God, a lover of virtue, when he sees a soul rushing onto the rocks with the force of vast waves and getting mixed up in the ways of wickedness, restores that person through harsh punishments.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
I was angry. Here he set out their fault, which is the cause of such a punishment. And he sets out three faults. First, the cruelty of their rule toward the Jews, setting out the power granted them: I was angry with my people, because of their sins, wishing to punish them; I have polluted, allowed to be polluted by you, my inheritance, the people of Israel, above: Israel is my inheritance (Isa 19:25); I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance (Jer 12:7); and he sets out their abuse of this power: you have shown no mercy to …
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