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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Nevertheless, you will say, adversity is a terrible thing and grievous to be borne. Yet look at it again compared with another image and then also learn to despise it. For the railings, and insults, and reproaches, and gibes inflicted by enemies, and their plots are compared to a worn-out garment, and moth-eaten wool when God says "Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings, for they shall wax old as doth a garment, and like moth-eaten wool so shall they be consumed." Therefore let none of these things …
Cyril of Alexandria
And the Father was Christ's helper. For he did not allow or concede that his own Son should be completely shamed or overwhelmed. For they were punished, those who sought to take their punishment out on me as those who dare to fight with God.… For though being with us, he was the only-begotten Word of God. He put on an identical human likeness, by which reason alone he was believed to be of a nature with us. For every human being is subject to faults and sins, and no one alive is completely blameless. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Third, he gives himself as example as to the trust which he had in God, first, setting out his ready defense: the Lord God is my helper: the Lord is with me as a strong warrior (Jer 20:11); second, the security of his trust: and I set my face as a most hard rock, that I might be moved by neither fear nor shame: I have made your face like an adamant and like flint (Ezek 3:9); third, he assigns the reason for this security from the power of the one who helps him: he is near that justifies me, namely, God. …
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