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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Then let my wife be a harlot unto another, and let others bow down upon her. And if he ever had done this thing, he prays for that sin to be turned into punishment to him. And because it is generally the case that that thing which in the doing of, we do not well consider how heinous it is, in the suffering it we do consider this; the force of that atrocity which, if he were guilty, he declares that he himself ought to undergo, he makes plain by expressing it...
Thomas Aquinas
He seems justly punished who soils the wife of another by adultery, in that his wife also is soiled by others, and so he says, "let my wife be the prostitute of another," let her offer herself for sale to others. From this it follows that others abuse her, and so he then says, "and others bend down over her," to commit adultery.
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