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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
In the night season my bone is pierced with pangs, and they that eat me sleep not. If we mark the history by itself, the case appears plain, because the body of the holy man, through the hollows of ulcers, a swarming multitude of worms was wounding. But if we dive into the mystery of the allegory, what are denoted by 'the bones,' but the strong ones severally in the body of Holy Church? Who, as it were, by their solidity hold together the members, while they bear with stedfastness the practices of those going weakly. …
Thomas Aquinas
So he says, "At night pains tear my bones," as if to say: My pains so increase at night that they seem to reach piercing through my bones. He shows that the cause of his pain was from the rotting of his sores saying, "and they who consume me," the worms generated from the rotting of the wounds, "do not sleep," since they give no rest to him.
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