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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
That I may know the words that he will answer me, and understand what he will say unto me. For we then bewail our sins, when we begin to weigh them; but we then weigh them the more exactly, when more anxiously we bewail them, and by our lamentations it rises up more perfectly in our hearts, what the severity of God threatens those with that commit sin, what will be those rebukings upon the children of perdition, what the terror, what the abhorrence of the unappeasable Majesty. …
Thomas Aquinas
This is like debaters usually make objections against the arguments of their opponents, to understand the truth more fully, and so he says, "to know how he answers me." This relates to knowing the truth of the answer. "To understand what he says to me," relates to understanding the sense of the words. For man cannot know whether something is true which is said to him unless he understands what is said to him.
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