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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. In the day we make out the objects that we look at, but in the night, either from the blindness we discern nothing, or from the uncertainty we are bewildered. Accordingly by 'day' we have 'understanding' represented, and by 'night,' 'ignorance.' And by the number seven the sum of completeness is expressed; and hence in seven days, and no more, the whole of this transitory period is accomplished. …
Thomas Aquinas
They consoled him not only by showing compassion to him, but also by showing their fellowship with him; for there follows, "they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights." Nevertheless one must not understand this to mean a continuous period, but at suitable times, for great sorrow needed consolation for a long time. But they did not show him the third form which is especially consoling i.e. …
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