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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Although trials, as we have said, are of two kinds, patience is useful in each kind. In trials from God it is useful in that through them we receive glorification, as Abraham and Job received it, and in trials from us — in that by bearing them with gratitude we make, as it were, recompense for our sins, for whoever acknowledges his sins has laid the beginning of his salvation and has acquired a trait of the righteous, since the righteous man is the first to accuse himself.
Oecumenius
Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience; but let patience have its perfect work, that your work may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Testing, James says, that which is searched, that which is received, that which is pure: as it is written: "tried in the fire, purified in the earth." (Ps. 11:7) But how does testing produce patience? Because that faith is proven to be pure, which is perfected through patience and endurance of the conditions inflicted. …
Desert Fathers
Syncletica also said, 'If you are troubled by illness, do not be miserable, even if you are so ill that you cannot stand to pray or use your voice to say psalms. We need these tribulations to destroy the desires of our body; they serve the same purpose as fasting and austerity. If your senses are dulled by illness, you do not need to fast. In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. A great deal is gained spiritually by bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God. …
Western Saints
Bede
Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Therefore (he says) you are tempted by adverse things, so that you may learn the virtue of patience, and through it, you may be able to show and prove that you carry in your heart a firm faith in future reward. …
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