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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 18. They shall be as chaff before the wind, and as ashes that the storm scattereth. 56. When the wicked man is seen in power, when he is utterly without check or restraint in his acts of oppression and violence, by the imaginations of the weak he is accounted too well ballasted, and as rooted in this world. …
Thomas Aquinas
"they," evil men, "will be like chaff before the wind," which cannot resist the wind because of lightness, "and like ash," which remain when wood is burned, "which the whirlwind drives away," because it does not have moisture to hold itself together. So also when adversity comes, wicked men cannot resist it because they lack the support of divine hope and they are driven away by different thoughts without the moisture of virtue.
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