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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 7. Mine eye is dim, for indignation, and all my members are as it were brought to nothing. For 'the eye is dim for indignation,' when those very persons likewise, who in the Lord's Body, i.e. in the Church, are endued with the light of truth, whilst they see themselves too long despised and disdained by the wicked, are confounded in astonishment at the inscrutable judgment, and fail to fathom the secret of God; for what reason it is that the wicked are suffered to prevail against the innocence of the good? …
Thomas Aquinas
However it is characteristic of the zeal of the just to be indignant when they see the righteousness of divine judgments perverted by false doctrine. So Job consequently shows the greatness of his zeal in two ways: first, by a kind of disturbance of the mind. "Vicious anger blinds the eye, but zealous anger troubles the eye," as Gregory says. …
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